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HINDU PHILOSOPHY |
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creation and destruction goes on from kalpa to kalpa.
The theory of the Samkhya School is known as Parinama -vada. It is a
theory of evolution. According to this the universe consists of two eternal realities, one
conscious and the other unconscious. The former is called Purusa and the latter Pradhana
or Prakrti. There are numberless Purusas or souls all independent of one an other and
devoid of any qualities. They are the silent spectators of the various modifications of
Pradhana. The Pradhana or Prakrti of the Sankhya system is either universal matter or universal energy. It has three gunas or dispositions namely, sattva or purity, rajas or passion and tamas or dullness. When these dispositions are in equilibrium, Pradhana is said to be quiescent. But when the equilibrium is disturbed by the presence of souls, the gunas as begin to act on one another and we have evolution in the following order. Pradhana gives rise to
The evolving Prakrti is in itself blind and unconscious, but all its activities are purposive, their fulfillment being the fruition of the destiny of souls. At the end of a kalpa the world is dissolved and the three gunas of Prakrti come into equilibrium again. |
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