Samkhya Philosophy
Samkhya means Enumeration. The founder of the Sankya school of Philosophy was Maharishi Kapil. There is some distinct feature of this philosophy:
- It strongly proponents Dualism. There are only two realities viz. Purusha and Prakriti.
- By Purusha they mean Consciousness and by Prakriti, they mean substance or realm of matter.
- Jiva or life is that state in which puruṣa is bonded to prakriti through the glue of desire, and the end of this bondage is moksha.
- The above three points lead to the conclusion that this school does not believe in the existence of God.
- At the same point , it does not describe what happens after moksha and does not mention anything about Ishwara or God, because after liberation there is no essential distinction of individual and universal puruṣa. So what happens after Moksha is irrelevant thing for this school. But at the same time, though godless, the Sankhya believes in the doctrine o£ Karma and of transmigration of souls.
- This philosophy adversely affected the Tantra sadhana a lot.
Samkhya School of philosophy, the dualism consists of fundamental difference between consciousness and matter. It is different from the dualism in west, because in that the dualism differentiates between mind and body.
