Karma Yoga: Understanding Sattva, Rajas And Tamas In The Gradation Of Duty And Morality

According to the Sankhya philosophy, nature is composed of three forces called, in Sanskrit, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. These, ...
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Sankhya and Yoga

Sankhya and Yoga form the building blocks of Indian philosophy. Sankhya means “enumeration”. To understand this philosophy, we have to compare and contrast it with yoga. Yoga means “union” with ...
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Sankhya philosophy

Kapila explains the quintessence of the Sankhya philosophy to Devahuti in the Bhagavata Purana. The Sankhya sastra expounded in the Bhagavata Purana and in the Bhagavad Gita lays emphasis on Bhakti ...
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Each Is Great In His Own Place: Swami Vivekananda On Duty, Morality And The Three Forces Of Nature

According to the Sankhya philosophy, nature is composed of three forces called, in Sanskrit, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. These, as manifested in the physical world, are what we may call equilibrium, ...
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A new book studies ancient texts and ideas to identify six systems of Indian philosophy

The five schools of philosophy that preceded Shankara’s systemic exposition of Vedantic metaphysics were the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, and Purva Mimamsha. All these were essentially guided by ...