Introduction and Overview In an earlier article, I discussed how I discussed the Sāńkhya notion of manifest and unmanifest matter and how the unmanifest becomes manifest through several stages—para, pasyanti, madhyama, and vaikhari. We also talked about how the agency to cause this manifestation is prāna, which acts as the “force” […]
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Why Sāńkhya Doesn’t Have Objects of Action
Introduction and Overview Even a casual look at Sāńkhya reveals an apparent asymmetry in its ontology, namely that there are five sense-objects called Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether, corresponding to the five senses of knowledge Nose, Tongue, Eyes, Skin, and Ears respectively, but there aren’t corresponding sense-objects for the […]