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In the Samkhya Karika and Tattva Samasa, and hence in Tantric Buddhism, it specifically refers to the acquisition of supernatural powers by psychic or magical means or the supposed faculty so acquired.
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Samkhya and Karika
The major text of this Vedic school is the extant Samkhya Karika circa 200 CE.
The principal text of the Samkhya school, the Samkhya Karika, was written by Ishvara Krishna in the fourth century CE, by which time it was already a dominant Hindu school.
Samkhya and Tattva
* Tattva, the basis of the universe according to Hindu Samkhya philosophy
Tattva vision is a technique developed by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( probably derived from the elements, or Tattva known as Tattwas, of the Samkhya version of Hindu Philosophy ) to aid with the development of the faculty of astral clairvoyance.
Samkhya and Buddhism
The main opponent in his work is the Mimamsa school of thought, though he also offers arguments against the views of some other schools like Samkhya and certain schools of Buddhism.
A prominent similarity between Buddhism and Samkhya is the emphasis on suffering ( dukkha ).
Therefore, it is likely that Samkhya imbibed this idea from Buddhism.
The orthodox Hindu philosophies of Samkhya, Yoga, Vedanta, as well as the non-orthodox Nastika systems of Jainism and Buddhism can all be seen as representing one stream of spiritual activity in Ancient India, in contrast to the Bhakti traditions and Vedic ritualism which were also prevalent at the same time.
For example, Somananda disagrees with the gross realism of the Nyaya-Vaisesika system, the subtle realism of Samkhya, and the idealism of Vedanta, or that of Vijnanavada of Buddhism.
Samkhya and refers
The name Lokāyata can be traced to Kautilya's Arthashastra, which refers to three ānvīkṣikīs ( logical philosophies ) — Yoga, Samkhya and Lokāyata.
The text also refers to an earlier work of Samkhya philosophy called Ṣaṣṭitantra ( science of sixty topics ) which is now lost.
Bhagavan Shri Shanmukha Anantha Natha is the first scholar to define that the ' blackness ' of Krishna is not a racial interpretation but refers to the Absolute in its phase of manifestation as denoted by Samkhya philosophy.
Samkhya and by
It is more likely, that Samkhya was moulded by many ancient theories of soul in various Vedic and non-Vedic schools.
The is the vehicle of consciousness in later Samkhya, Vedanta, and Yoga, and is propelled by past-life tendencies, or bhavas.
The influence of Samkhya is so pervasive in the Sutras that the historian Surendranath Dasgupta went so far as to deny independent categorization to Patañjali's system, preferring to refer to it as Patanjala Samkhya, similar to the position taken by the Jain writer Haribhadra in his commentary on Yoga.
The Yoga Sutras diverge from early Samkhya by the addition of the principle of Isvara or God, as exemplified by Sutra 1. 23-" Iśvara pranidhãnãt vã ", which is interpreted to mean that surrender to God is one way to liberation.
The aim of Yoga is to free the individual from the clutches of matter, and considers intellectual knowledge alone to be inadequate for the purpose-which is different from the position taken by Samkhya.
Kapila's Samkhya is taught by him to his mother Devahuti in Book Three, and by Krishna to Uddhava in Book Eleven.
The treatment of Samkhya in the Bhāgavata is changed by the text's emphasis on devotion.
Samkhya and means
Another divergence from Samkhya is that while the Samkhya holds that knowledge is the means to liberation, Patañjali's Yoga insists on the methods of concentration and active striving.
Samkhya and .
* Kapila ( c. 500 BCE ), proponent of the Samkhya system of philosophy
According to the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Akasha is one of the five Mahābhūtas ( grand physical elements ) having the specific property of sound.
After the development of distinct schools of Indian philosophy, Advaita Vedanta and Samkhya schools are thought to have originated concepts similar to solipsism.
Samkhya philosophy, which is sometimes seen as the basis of Yogic thought, adopts a view that matter exists independently of individual minds.
Therefore, Samkhya chooses representational realism over epistemological solipsism.
# Kapila 1. 3. 10 – a sage and one of the founders of the Samkhya school of philosophy
Unlike Advaita Vedanta, in Samkhya Sutra, Kapila holds blissfullness of Ātman as merely figurative.
However, both Samkhya and Advaita consider the ego ( asmita, ahamkara ) rather than the Ātman to be the cause of pleasure and pain.
In Samkhya, a school of Hindu philosophy, Purusha is pure consciousness.
Samkhya, also Sankhya, Sāṃkhya, or Sāṅkhya (, IAST: ) is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy and classical Indian philosophy.
The Samkhya school is dualistic and atheistic.
Sage Kapila is traditionally credited as a founder of the Samkhya school.
Samkhya does not describe what happens after Moksha and does not mention anything about Ishwara or God, because after liberation there is no essential distinction of individual and universal Puruṣa.
There are differences between Samkhya and Western forms of dualism.
The Samkhya thought evolved into a cohesive philosophical system in early centuries CE.
As such, there is little evidence of existence of the Samkhya school before this time.
However, the ideas that were developed and assimilated into the classical Samkhya text, Samkhyakarika, are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures such as Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita.
" The emphasis of duality between existence ( sat ) and non-existence ( asat ) in the Nasadiya sukta of the Rig Veda is similar to the vyakta – avyakta ( manifest – unmanifest ) polarity in Samkhya.
The hymn of Purusha sukta may also have influenced Samkhya.
The Samkhya notion of buddhi or mahat is similar to the notion of hiranyagarbha which appears in both the Rig Veda and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.
Karika and by
* Spanda Karika of Vasugupta: translation and commentary by Swami Lakshman joo, original audio recordings ( Kashmir, 5 Aug to 26 Aug 1981 ).
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