Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Purusha and Prakruti what is this? where that fits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Depends on what school of Vedanta you go to, however it originally is to be found in Samkhya Philosophy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Depends on what school of Vedanta you go to, however it originally is to be found in Samkhya Philosophy. Thanks. What is this Samkhya Philosophy? Is this hinduism also? PS: can some member please post this picture? ww.energyenhancement.org/ayurveda/images/samkhya%20creative%20philosophy.GIF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 "There are two worlds namely the material world and the anti-material world. The material world is made of inferior qualities energy divided into eight material principles but anti-material world is made of superior qualities energy. And because both the material and anti-material energies are emanations of the Supreme Transcendence Personality of Godhead, it is apt to conclude that Lord Krishna is the ultimate cause of all creations and annihilations." The material elements: (1) earth, (2) water, (3) air, (4) fire, (5) sky, (6) mind, (7) intelligence and (8) material ego. ________________________ Questions: There are the same material elements in that picture. (1) earth, (2) water, (3) fire, (4) air, (5) ether, (6) mind, (7) ahamkar (ego), (8) mahad (inteligence) (why in different order?) - Is Purusha and Prakruti the ninth anti-material principle, living force ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Or is it Purusha just the name for 8 principles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 I ment Prakruti in previous post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Samkhya From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samkhya, also Sankhya, ( Sāṃkhya - Enumeration) is one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy. Sage Kapila is traditionally considered to be the founder of the Sankhya school, although no historical verification is possible. It is regarded as the oldest of the philosophical systems in India. This was later incorporated as being one of the six orthodox (astika) (that which recognizes vedic authority) systems of Hindu philosophy with the major text of the theistic school being the extant Sankhya Karika, written by Ishvara Krishna, circa 200 CE. There are no purely Samkhya schools existing today in Hinduism, but its influence is felt in Yoga and Vedanta schools of philosophy. Its philosophy regards the universe as consisting of two eternal realities: Purusha and Prakriti. It is therefore a strongly dualist and enumerationist philosophy. The Purusha is the centre of consciousness, whereas the Prakriti is the source of all material existence. The Samkhya school has deeply influenced the Hindu Yoga school of philosophy. They are sometimes referred together as Samkhya - yoga school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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