Sankhya is analytics and is complemented by yoga which is synthesis. Sankhya is symbolised by an axe that cuts, and yoga by a rope that binds. Ravana is said to have written a commentary on Samkhya ...

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 ...

Sankhya philosophy divides all things that are there into two radically different kinds: Things which possess consciousness or rather are constituted of chetana or consciousness, and things which are ...

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 ...