Sāṃkhyakārikā

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Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837 - 242 páginas
 

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Página 178 - So through study of principles, the conclusive, incontrovertible, one only knowledge is attained, that neither I AM, nor is aught mine, nor do I exist.
Página 76 - For the soul's contemplation of nature, and for its abstraction, the union of both takes place, as of the halt and blind. By that union a creation is framed.
Página 130 - Through the influence of intellect the whole of subtile body is affected by dispositions or conditions, in the same manner as a garment is perfumed from contact with a fragrant champa flower ||.
Página 1 - The inquiry is into the means of precluding the three sorts of pain, for pain is embarrassment. Nor is the inquiry superfluous because obvious means of alleviation exist, for absolute and final relief is not thereby accomplished.
Página 111 - ... by the actual application of the several organs : sound, taste, touch, smell, form to be manifested, to be made sensible, prakd'sya : and all of them, together with the vital airs, constituting in fact animal life, are to be dhdryya\, upheld or maintained. XXXIII. INTERNAL instruments are three ; external ten, to make known objects to those three. The external organs minister at time present : the internal do so at any time. BHASHYA. Internal instruments. — Intellect, egotism, and mind are...
Página 13 - is, like the temporal one, ineffectual : for it is impure ; and " it is defective in some respects, as well as excessive in others. " A method, different from both, is preferable ; consisting in a " discriminative knowledge of perceptible principles, and of " the imperceptible one, and of the thinking soul.
Página 116 - XXXVI. THESE characteristically differing from each other, and variously affected by qualities, present to the intellect the soul's whole purpose, enlightening it as a lamp. BHASHYA. These, which are called instruments : they variously affected by qualities. How affected? Like a lamp; exhibiting objects like a lamp. Characteristically differing ; dissimilar, having different objects ; that is the sense. Objects of the qualities is intended. Variously affected by qualities ; produced or proceeding...
Página 68 - ... of sensible objects is for another's use ; since the converse of that which has the three qualities, with other properties (before mentioned), must exist ; since there must be superintendence ; since there must be one to enjoy ; since there is a tendency to abstraction ; therefore, soul is.
Página 29 - It is owing to the subtilty (of nature), not to the non-existence of this original principle, that it is not apprehended by the senses, but inferred from its effects.
Página 168 - The object of Nature's activity, according to the Sankhya system, is " the final liberation of individual soul." "The incompetency of nature, an irrational principle, to institute a course of action for a definite purpose, and the unfitness of rational soul to regulate the acts of an agent whose character it imperfectly apprehends, constitute a principal argument with the theistical Sankhyas for the necessity of a Providence, to whom the ends of existence are known, and by whom Nature is guided The...

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