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of 'being composite', which latter being absent in the spirit, must lead to the inference of the absence of the three Attributes." Thus, the famous dualism of matter and mind, object and subject, Prakrti and Purusa in which the two aspects of reality are inseparably related is established by the Sānkhya system. The very concept of matter (Praksti) inevitably leads to the inference of the existence of the Purusa, the experiencer, without which the Praksti will lose all meaning and purpose. Purusa and Praksti are relative terms mutually implying each other, and neither is conceivable without the other. However, the Sāmkhya invariably associates the Prakști with the Purusa, but at the same time it can imagine the state of the entire isolation ( Kaivalya) of the soul from the Praksti. Their union is indissoluble at least in the phenomenal reality, though the two are separated in the original and the final state of liberation.
It has already been stated that the Purusa or the soul, in the Samkhya system is devoid of the three attributes. The three attributes sattva, rajas and tamas are all present in every product of the Praksti, though the nature of a thing is determined from the predominance of some one attribute in it. The proportion of one or two of the three may be very low in a thing, but no product of the Prakrti is entirely free from any of the attributes in the phenomenal reality. All composite objects
1 Mis'ra Vācaspati : The Tattya Kaumudi, pp. 61-62. Tr. Ganganath Jha.
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