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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Crucial text of Dualist Philosophy from India
Samkhya Philosophy can be fruitfully studied in connection with the Yoga Sutras of Patinjali, and with Tantric and Buddhist philosophies. Unlike Advaita Vedanta, Samkhya philosophy argues that there are two distinct co-eternal, primordial principles of reality, and that making distinctions about what is not the Self is crucial to liberation. The two primordial...
Published on September 4, 2006 by Gnostic Path
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really hard to read and understand
It is an old scripture, translated into english. I could not understand most of the text.
Published on November 19, 2009 by Orlando S. Campos
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Crucial text of Dualist Philosophy from India,
By Gnostic Path "http://gnosticpath.blogspot.com/" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Samkhya Philosophy: Containing Samkhya Pravachanasutram with the Vriti of Aniruddha, and the Bhasya of Vijnanabhiksu and Extracts fromthe Vrittisara ... Tatvasamasa; Samkhyakanka; Panchasikhasutram (Hardcover)
Samkhya Philosophy can be fruitfully studied in connection with the Yoga Sutras of Patinjali, and with Tantric and Buddhist philosophies.Unlike Advaita Vedanta, Samkhya philosophy argues that there are two distinct co-eternal, primordial principles of reality, and that making distinctions about what is not the Self is crucial to liberation. The two primordial principles are Purusha and Prakriti. There are many selves (Purushas), which are co-eternal with Nature (Prakriti); it is the agitation of Prakriti in the presense of a Purusha which leads to the manifestation of various other experiences. For a student of comparative religion, particularly those who are interested in dualism in its various forms, this text is very important. It particularly interesting to compare and contrast it to the text, The Book of Two Principles, which is of Cathar origin, available in Wakefield and Evan's Heresies of the High Middle Ages.
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really hard to read and understand,
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This review is from: The Samkhya Philosophy (1915) (Hardcover)
It is an old scripture, translated into english. I could not understand most of the text.
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Samkhya Philosophy: Containing Samkhya Pravachanasutram with the Vriti of Aniruddha, and the Bhasya of Vijnanabhiksu and Extracts fromthe... by Kapila (Hardcover - January 1, 2003)
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