Yoga Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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MYSTICISM IN INDIA
Supreme bliss follows. This state is called Sattvapathi or Moksha or Kaivalya. For every Purusha who has thus realized himself 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 apprechension of the truths of nature. That intuitive knowledge which is called Taraka puts the student in possession of almost every kind of khowledge he applies himself to. It is indeed this fact on which socalled powers of Yoga are based.
The Yoga philosophy subscribes to the Sankhya theory in toto. It however appears to hold that Purush-soul by himself cannot easily acquire that Sattvika development waich leads to knowledge and bliss. A particular kind of Ishvara or supreme God is therefore added for purposes of contemplation, &c., to the 25 categories of the Sunkhya. This circumstance has obtained for Yoga the na.ne of Seshvara Sankhya, theistic Sankhya, as Sankhya proper is called Nirishvara Sankhya, atheistic Sankhya. The second and really important improvement on the Sankhya consists in the highly practical character of the rules