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THE YOGA PHILOSOPHY
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For every Purusha who has thus realized itself Prakriti has ceased to exist, in other words, has ceased to cause disturbance and misery. The course of nature never ceases but one who receives knowledge remains happy throughout by understanding the truth. The Sankhya tries to arrive at this result by a strict mode of life accompanied with analysis and contemplation.
This state of peace besides being conducive to eternal calm and happiness is most favourable to the apprehension of the truths of nature. That intuitive knowledge which is called ar puts the students in possession of almost every kind of knowledge he applies himself to. It is indeed this fact on which the so-called powers of yoga are based. 4. The Yoga philosophy subscribes to this Sankhya theory in toto. It however appears to hold that Purusha -Soul-by himself cannot easily acquire that ofiari development which leads to knowleage and bliss. A particular kind of state or Supreme God is therefore added for the purposes of contemplation etc. to the twenty-five categories of the Sankhya. This circumstance has obtained for Yoga the name of TT HIT or theistic Sankhya as the Sankhya proper is called FRITT HIGH or atheistic Sankhya. 5. The second and really important improvement on the Sankhya consists in the highly practical character of the rules laid down for acquiring eternal bliss and knowledge. The end proposed by the Yoga philosophy is समाधि leading to कैवल्य. Yoga and समाधि are convertible terms, both meaning faarcia or suspension of the transformations of the thinking principle.5 6. With this introduction we will enter into the details of this philosophy. We have defined yoga to be the
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