• as a feature of Samkhya philosophy. The guṇas are now a key concept in nearly all schools of Hindu philosophy. There are three guṇas (triguṇa), according...
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  • "Samkhya is not one of the systems of Indian philosophy. Samkhya is the philosophy of India!" Gopinath Kaviraj Samkhya or Sankhya (/ˈsɑːŋkjə/; Sanskrit:...
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  • Niyama, as well as elements of the Guṇa theory of Samkhya. The epistemology of Yoga-philosophy, like the Sāmkhya school, relies on three of six Pramanas...
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    theory of Samkhya. Patanjali adopts the theory of Guṇa from Samkhya. Guṇas theory states that three gunas (innate tendency, attributes) are present in different...
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  • Sattva (category Guna)
    the three guṇas or "modes of existence" (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept understood by the Samkhya school of...
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    The Samkhya Yoga (Sanskrit: सांख्ययोग, romanized: Sāṃkhyayoga) is the second of the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita. The chapter has a total of...
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  • Rajas (category Guna)
    is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy...
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  • reason Theory of spiritual intuition Theory of Gunas Twenty five tattvas The enumeration theory of Samkhya and Garbha, Prasna and Maitreya Upanishads Theory...
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  • Samkhyakarika (redirect from Samkhya Karika)
    (Sanskrit: सांख्यकारिका, Sāṁkhyakārikā) is the earliest surviving text of the Samkhya school of Indian philosophy. The text's original composition date is unknown...
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  • Tamas (philosophy) (category Guna)
    is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy...
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  • In Samkhya, prakriti, comprising the three gunas, exists in equilibrium before the cosmos manifests, neutralizing each other's properties. Samkhya argues...
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  • The Samkhya theory of guṇas was widely discussed, developed and refined by various schools of Indian philosophies, including Buddhism. Samkhya's philosophical...
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    Ishvara (section In Samkhya)
    Self)". Samkhya is called one of the major atheistic schools of Hindu philososphy by some scholars. Others, such as Jacobsen, believe Samkhya is more...
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  • Satkaryavada (category Samkhya)
    The Samkhya school of philosophy, which follows Prakṛti Parinama-vada (doctrine of the transformation of objective nature), describes the origination...
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  • Pradhana (section Samkhya)
    In Samkhya, pradhāna (Sanskrit: प्रधान) is the "primal matter," "the first principle from which all material things have evolved. It is an alternate term...
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  • (Sanskrit: महत्तत्त्व, romanized: Mahattattva) or mahat is a concept in the Samkhya philosophy of Hinduism. It is the first evolute of Prakriti, the causeless...
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  • spiritual journey and ultimately attaining liberation. Arjuna Vishada Yoga Samkhya Yoga Jnana-Vijana Yoga "Easy to Understand Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 by Sant...
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  • feelings, activity and mind. Samkhya philosophy includes a theory of gunas (qualities, innate tendencies, psyche). Guna, it states, are of three types:...
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    Buddhism. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the classical text on Hindu yoga, samkhya-based but influenced by Buddhism, dates to the early centuries of the Common...
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    ways to see the self, based on the Samkhya-premise that people are born with different temperaments and tendencies (guṇa). Some individuals are more reflective...
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  • consciousness or witness-consciousness as exemplified by the Purusha of Samkhya. It is distinct from the ever-evolving embodied individual being (jivanatman)...
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  • itself, a guṇa (quality) cannot exist so. The original 17 guṇas (qualities) are, rūpa (colour), rasa (taste), gandha (smell), sparśa (touch), saṁkhyā (number)...
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    Nirguna Brahman. In Samkhya philosophy, Devata or deities are considered as "natural sources of energy" who have Sattva as the dominant Guna. Hindu deities...
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  • (Sanskrit: अहंकार ; Romanized: Ahaṁkāra), 'I-making' is a Sanskrit term in Saṃkhyā philosophy that refers to the identification of Self or Being with 'Nature'...
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  • Tanmatras (section Samkhya)
    the manas (mind), which receives and arranges them into precepts. The Samkhya school of philosophy, propounded by Rishi Kapila, holds the five tanmatras...
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  • nature of language." Indian ideas of nondual awareness developed as proto-Samkhya speculations in ascetic milieus in the 1st millennium BCE, with the notion...
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  • Tattva (section Samkhya)
    together they are thought to form the basis of all our experience. The Samkhya philosophy uses a system of 25 tattvas, while Shaivism uses a system of...
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  • "Neo-Nyaya", while Samkhya gradually lost its status as an independent school, its tenets absorbed into Yoga and Vedanta. Sāmkhya is a dualist philosophical...
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  • from the cause. This doctrine is common to the Samkhya system and Vishishtadvaita system. The Samkhya system adheres to Prakriti-Parinama vada whereas...
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  • divided into three categories, according to their intrinsic qualities or gunas. Here Nishkama Karma belongs to the first category, the Sattva (pure) or...
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