{"id":2663,"date":"2013-07-13T01:43:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:43:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:05","slug":"07-the-sankhya-yoga-system-vol-28-letters-on-yoga-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/28-letters-on-yoga-i\/07-the-sankhya-yoga-system-vol-28-letters-on-yoga-i","title":{"rendered":"-07_The Sankhya-Yoga System.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<font size=\"4\">Chapter Two <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><font size=\"4\">The Sankhya-Yoga System <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Purusha__\">Purusha<br \/>\n <\/a><br \/>\n <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Purusha is the conscious Being who supports all the action of<br \/>\nNature. There is no fixed place, but as the central being he usually stands above the adhar<br \/>\n\t\u2014he becomes also the mental,<br \/>\nvital, physical, psychic being. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The word being is used with all kinds of significances<br \/>\n\u2014it is a very imprecise word and can embrace everything. Purusha has<br \/>\na precise significance. It is the Soul or Spirit side of the being as opposed to the Nature side. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">There is one Purusha<br \/>\n\t\u2014its action is according to the position<br \/>\nand need of the consciousness at the time. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\tIt is the nature of the action above the ordinary mind or in the cosmic<br \/>\n\tconsciousness which is many-sided.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The Purusha is one thing and the ordinary mental will and force are another. The latter may be unsuccessful in their action. When<br \/>\nyou are in the Purusha consciousness, that of itself implies a state of concentration and receptivity. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">By development of the inner will it [<i>the Purusha<\/i>] can become<br \/>\nactive. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The Purusha in men is normally passive not active. It is the Prakriti that is active.<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t40<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<a name=\"Purusha_and_Prakriti__\"><b>Purusha and Prakriti<\/b><br \/>\n\t<\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">There is a Purusha or essential being for each plane of the consciousness \u2014just as each has its prakriti (nature, especial force of action and movement), so each has its Purusha, a part of the<br \/>\nbeing which supports and observes and experiences and can also control the movements of Prakriti. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is Prakriti (Nature) that sends these impulses [<i>to act<\/i>]<br \/>\n\t\u2014Nature<br \/>\nsends all kinds of forces and experiences to each. It is for you as a conscious being (Purusha) to choose whether you shall do<br \/>\nor not do \u2014you should reject what you see to be wrong, accept only what is true and right. In Nature there is the higher and the<br \/>\nlower, the true and the false. What the Divine wants of you is that you should grow in the Truth and the higher Nature, reject<br \/>\nthe false and the lower Nature. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">As you have indulged the Prakriti for the last ten thousand lives or so, it has been accustomed to impose its own way on the<br \/>\nPurusha. To be separate is only the first step. Also I fancy the Purusha in you is still very mental in its will. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">In order to get the dynamic realisation it is not enough to rescue<br \/>\nthe Purusha from subjection to Prakriti; we must transfer the allegiance of the Purusha from the lower Prakriti with its play<br \/>\nof ignorant Forces to the Supreme Divine Shakti, the Mother. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is a mistake to identify the Mother with the lower Prakriti<br \/>\nand its mechanism of forces. Prakriti here is a mechanism only which has been put forth for the working of the evolutionary<br \/>\nIgnorance. As the ignorant mental, vital or physical being is not itself the Divine, although it comes from the Divine<br \/>\n\t\u2014so the<br \/>\nmechanism of Prakriti is not the Divine Mother. No doubt something of her is there in and behind this mechanism maintaining<br \/>\nit for its evolutionary purpose \u2014but what she is in herself is not &nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t41<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Para Prakriti to whom we turn for the release and the divine<br \/>\nfulfilment. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The realisation of the Purusha Consciousness calm, free,<br \/>\nobserving the play of forces but not attached or involved in them is a means of liberation. The calm, the detachment, a peaceful<br \/>\n<i>&nbsp;<\/i> strength and joy (<i>atmarati<\/i>) must be brought down into the vital<br \/>\nand physical as well as into the mind. If this is established, one is no longer a prey to the turmoil of the vital forces. But this calm,<br \/>\npeace, silent strength and joy is only the first descent of the Power of the Mother into the Adhar. Beyond that is a Knowledge, an<br \/>\nexecutive Power, a dynamic Ananda which is not that of the ordinary Prakriti even at its best and most sattwic, but divine in<br \/>\nits nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 3px\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">First, however, the calm, the peace, the liberation is needed.To try to bring down the dynamic side too soon is not advisable<br \/>\n\u2014 for then it would be a descent into a troubled and impure<br \/>\nnature unable to assimilate it and serious perturbations might be the consequence. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">There is a constant movement (Prakriti) and a constant silence<br \/>\n(Purusha). <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is the Purusha and Prakriti sides of the nature<br \/>\n\u2014one leading to pure conscious existence, static, the other to pure conscious<br \/>\nforce, dynamic. The past darkness they have come out of is that of ignorance, the future darkness that is felt above is supercon<br \/>\nscience. But of course the superconscience is really luminous \u2014only its light is not seen. The three forms of consciousness are the<br \/>\nthree sides of Nature represented by the three gunas \u2014force of subconscious tamas, Inertia, which is the law of Matter, force of<br \/>\nhalf-conscious desire, Kinesis, which is rajas, which is the law of Life, force of sattwic Prakasha, which is the law of Intelligence.<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t42<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Prakriti__\">Prakriti<br \/>\n <\/a><br \/>\n <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Prakriti is a name given to the Force that works out everything<br \/>\nin the person and in the world; it takes the form of mental, vital, psychic, physical and other forces, of all sorts of powers<br \/>\nand qualities, movements, forms, thoughts, sensations, feelings, actions \u2014all that is the result of Prakriti. It is as when a machine<br \/>\nis moved by forces of electricity or steam or gas \u2014so the world may be regarded as a huge and complicated machine worked by<br \/>\nthe forces of Prakriti. It is what is called in English &#8220;Nature&#8221;, and they say everything in the world is the work of Nature. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is Prakriti or Nature that acts; the Divine does not compel<br \/>\npeople to do anything. Nothing can happen without the presence and support of the Divine, for Nature or Prakriti is the Divine<br \/>\nForce and it is this that works out things, but it works them out according to the nature and through or with the will of each<br \/>\nman which is full of ignorance \u2014that goes on until men turn to the Divine and become conscious of Him and united with Him.<br \/>\nThen only can it be said that all begins to be done in them by the direct Will of the Divine. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The lower Prakriti is the ordinary consciousness of man with<br \/>\nits ignorance, desires and bondage. I suppose you know that one has to transcend this ordinary consciousness of the lower<br \/>\nNature and arrive at a higher divine consciousness, if one wants to be free? <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">By Prakriti [<i>in a passage in <\/i>Bases of Yoga] is meant universal<br \/>\nPrakriti. Universal Prakriti entering into the vital being creates desires which appear by its habitual response as an individual<br \/>\nnature; but if the habitual desires she throws in are rejected and exiled, the being remains but the old individual prakriti of vital<br \/>\ndesire is no longer there, \u2014a new nature is formed responding &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t43<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">to the Truth above and not to the lower Nature. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Universal Prakriti determined it [<i>the habit of response to vital<\/i> <i>movements<\/i>] and the soul or Purusha accepted it. In the acceptance lies the responsibility. The Purusha is that which sanctions or refuses. The vital being responds to the ordinary life waves in<br \/>\nthe animal; man responds to them but has the power of mental control. He has also as the mental Purusha is awake in him the<br \/>\npower to choose whether he shall have desire or train his being to surmount it. Finally, there is the possibility of bringing down<br \/>\na higher nature which will not be subject to desire but act on another vital principle. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -2px\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Prakriti_and_Shakti_or_Chit-Shakti__\">Prakriti and Shakti or Chit-Shakti<br \/>\n\t<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">What is meant by Prakriti or Nature is the outer or executive side<br \/>\nof the Shakti or Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play<br \/>\nof the forces, gunas etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti. The Prakriti itself is<br \/>\ndivided into the lower and higher, \u2014the lower is the Prakriti of the Ignorance, the Prakriti of mind, life and matter separated in<br \/>\nconsciousness from the Divine; the higher is the Divine Prakriti of Sachchidananda with its manifesting power of Supermind,<br \/>\nalways aware of the Divine and free from Ignorance and its consequences. Man so long as he is in the ignorance is subject to the<br \/>\nlower Prakriti, but by spiritual evolution he becomes aware of the higher Nature and seeks to come into contact with it. He can<br \/>\nascend into it and it can descend into him \u2014such an ascent and descent can transform the lower nature of mind, life and matter. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Prakriti is only the executive or working force<br \/>\n\t\u2014the Power be<br \/>\nhind Prakriti is Shakti. It is the Chit-Shakti in manifestation: that is the spiritual consciousness. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t44<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">All energies derive from the Chit-Shakti; but they differentiate from it as they descend. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">This much is true that Life is characteristically Force<br \/>\n\u2014the Physical is characteristically substance; but the dynamism of<br \/>\nboth derives from Chit \u2014mind dynamism also, all dynamism. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Purusha,_Prakriti_and_Action__\">Purusha, Prakriti and Action <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is more difficult for the Prakriti [<i>to separate itself from outer<\/i><br \/>\n<i>action than for the Purusha<\/i>] as its ordinary play is that of the<br \/>\nsurface being. It has to divide itself into two to separate from that. The Purusha on the contrary is in its nature silent and<br \/>\nseparate \u2014so it has only to go back to its original nature. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It [<i>Prakriti<\/i>] divides itself into an inner Force that is free from its action (free from rajas, tamas etc.) and the outer Prakriti which<br \/>\nit is using and changing. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">If ego and desire are different things from the gunas, then there can be an action of the gunas without ego and desire and there<br \/>\nfore without attachment. That is the nature of the action of the gunas in the unattached liberated Yogi. If it were not possible,<br \/>\nthen it would be nonsense to talk of the Yogis being unattached, for there would remain still attachment in part of their being. To<br \/>\nsay that they are unattached in the Purusha, but attached in the Prakriti, therefore they are unattached, is to talk nonsense. Attachment is attachment in whatever part of the being it may be. In order to be unattached one must be unattached everywhere,<br \/>\nin the mental, vital, physical action and not only in the silent soul somewhere inside. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">You seem to think that action and Prakriti are the same thing and<br \/>\nwhere there is no action there can be no Prakriti! Purusha and Prakriti are separate powers of the being. It is not that Purusha<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 45<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">= quiescence and Prakriti = action, so that when all is quiescent, there is no Prakriti and when all is active there is no Purusha.<br \/>\nWhen all is active, there is still the Purusha behind the active Nature and when all is quiescent there is still the Prakriti, but<br \/>\nthe Prakriti at rest. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The outer being is also detached [<i>when<br \/>\na Yogi engages in detached action<\/i>]<br \/>\n\u2014the whole being is without desire or attachment<br \/>\nand still action is possible. Action without desire is possible, action without attachment is possible, action without ego is<br \/>\npossible. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 25pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is not the inner Purusha only that remains detached then<br \/>\n\t\u2014the inner Purusha is always detached, only one is not conscious of it in the ordinary state. It is the Prakriti also that is<br \/>\nnot disturbed by the action of the gunas or attached to it \u2014the mind, the vital, the physical (which are Prakriti) begin to get<br \/>\nthe same quietude, unperturbed peace and detachment as the Purusha, but it is a quietude, not a cessation of all action, it is<br \/>\nquietude in action itself. If it were not so, my statement in the <i>Arya <\/i>that there can be a desireless or liberated action on which<br \/>\nI found the possibility of a free (<i>mukta<\/i>) action would be false. The whole being, Purusha-Prakriti, becomes detached (having<br \/>\nno desire or attachment) even in the action of the gunas. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Prakriti is the Force that acts. A Force may be in action or in quiescence, but when it rests, it is as much a Force as when it<br \/>\nacts. The gunas are an action of the Force, they are in the Force itself. The sea is there and the waves are there, but the waves<br \/>\nare not the sea and when there are no waves and the sea is still, it does not stop being the sea. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"The_Gunas_or_Qualities_of_Nature__\">The Gunas or Qualities of Nature<br \/>\n\t<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Prakriti and Nature are the same thing<br \/>\n\t\u2014the gunas are modes<br \/>\nor processes of Nature (Prakriti). <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t46<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">If the gunas are quiescent, then Prakriti ceases to act<br \/>\n\u2014unless the gunas are transformed into their divine equivalents, \u2014then<br \/>\nPrakriti becomes the higher or divine Nature. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I don&#8217;t think it1 is correct myself. It is supposed that when the three qualities are not in an equalised condition, when there is a<br \/>\ndiversity and movement of variation, then creation is active \u2014otherwise all becomes quiescent original Prakriti. It is doubtful<br \/>\nif it is actually so. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Transcendence of the three gunas is a state of liberation in which one is not affected by the action of the gunas; but even before that<br \/>\nis attained there can be a complete and living faith in the Divine. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Transformation_of_the_Gunas__\">Transformation of the Gunas <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The three gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattwa becomes<br \/>\n<i>jyotih<\/i>, the authentic<br \/>\n<i>.<\/i> spiritual light; rajas becomes <i>tapas<\/i>, the tranquilly intense divine&nbsp; force; tamas becomes <i>sama<\/i>,<br \/>\n\tthe divine quiet, rest, peace.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">You cannot drive out rajas and tamas, you can only convert<br \/>\nthem and give the predominance to sattwa. Tamas and rajas disappear only when the higher consciousness not only comes<br \/>\ndown but controls everything down to the cells of the body. They then change into the divine rest and peace and the divine<br \/>\nenergy or Tapas; finally sattwa also changes into the divine Light. As for remaining quiet when tamas is there, there can<br \/>\nalso be a tamasic quiet. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n &nbsp;&nbsp; <font size=\"2\">1 <i>The correspondent asked for an explanation of an aphorism in the Sankhya Sutra<\/i><br \/>\n\t<i>(1.61): <\/i>sattvarajastamasam samyavastha prakr<font face=\"Times New Roman\">t<\/font>ih<\/font><i><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&#803;<\/font><font size=\"2\"> \u2014Ed.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t47<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The Prakriti can be psychicised and spiritualised and the gunas yet remain, but with the sattwa dominant and the rajas and<br \/>\ntamas enlightened by the sattwa. As the transformation increases, the gunas change more and more towards their divine<br \/>\nequivalents, but it is only when the supramental comes that there is the full change. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The transformation of the gunas is necessary for the <i>perfection<\/i><br \/>\nof the nature, not for liberation. Liberation comes by loss of ego and desire. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Sattwa_and_Liberation__\">Sattwa and Liberation <\/a> <\/b> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\tWhen the consciousness as well as the action is free from ego and desire,<br \/>\n\tthere is always a fundamental calm. This calm remains whether sattwa<br \/>\n\tpredominates or not. Sattwa need not always predominate, because to become<br \/>\n\tsattwic is not the object of sadhana. To need to be always sattwic would be<br \/>\n\ta limitation. Whatever guna predominates in the action, to be free,<br \/>\n\tdesireless, calm behind all actions, is the condition of the liberated man.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The sattwa predominates [<i>when action is done without desire<\/i><br \/>\n<i>and ego<\/i>], the rajas acts as a kinetic movement under the control of sattwa until the tamas imposes the need of rest. That is the<br \/>\nusual thing. But even if the tamas predominates and the action is weak or the rajas predominates and the action is excessive,<br \/>\nneither the Purusha nor the Prakriti get disturbed, there is a fundamental calm in the whole being and the action is no more<br \/>\nthan a ripple or an eddy on the surface. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Transformation_of_Rajas_and_Tamas__\">Transformation of Rajas and Tamas<br \/>\n\t<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is possible that the fatigue or lethargy comes as the wrong condition which has to be replaced by the peace. As rajas, kinetic<br \/>\npassion, has to be replaced by <i>tapas<\/i>, the spiritual force, so tamas, &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t48<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">the obscure inertia, has to be replaced by <i>sama<\/i>, the luminous<br \/>\nquietude and peace. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The peace (<i>sama<\/i>) is the pure form, tamas is its degraded or<br \/>\nperverted form \u2014just as rajas is the degraded or perverse form of Tapas. When there is the transformation, tamas can be got<br \/>\nrid of \u2014but till then there is always a possibility of its mixing with the peace or stillness so long as that is not perfect and<br \/>\nall-pervading. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">A dynamic descent brings <i>tapas <\/i>not <i>sama<\/i>. It is a greater and<br \/>\n greater descent of peace that brings <i>sama <\/i>\u2014the dynamic de<br \/>\nscent helps it by dispersing the element of rajasic disturbance and changing rajas into<br \/>\n<i>tapas<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Transformation_of_Tamas_into_Sama_\">Transformation of Tamas into <i>Sama<\/i><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">The tamas is part of the general physical Nature and so long as that is not fully changed and illumined, something of it remains;<br \/>\nbut one has only to go on opening oneself to the Mother&#8217;s consciousness and in time the tamas too will change into the inner<br \/>\ndivine rest and peace. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">All undesirable things are a mistranslation in the Ignorance of something that on a higher plane is or might be desirable. Inertia,<br \/>\n tamas, is the mistranslation of the divine <i>sama<\/i>, rest, quietude,<br \/>\npeace; pain is a mistranslation of Ananda, lust of love etc. It is only when the lower perversions are got rid of that the higher<br \/>\nthings in their truth can reign. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It is the tendency of the physical to substitute its own inertia for the emptiness. The true emptiness is the beginning of what I call<br \/>\n in the <i>Arya sama <\/i>\u2014the rest, calm, peace of the eternal Self \u2014<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013<br \/>\n\t\t\t49<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">which has finally to replace tamas, the physical inertia. Tamas<br \/>\nis the degradation of <i>sama<\/i>, as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to<br \/>\nsubstitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its<br \/>\nrajas for the true action of the Force. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It [<i>sleepiness<\/i>] is the physical tamas trying to push itself into the place of the calm. Part of the transformation consists in<br \/>\n replacing the element of tamas in the nature by the <i>sama <\/i>or true<br \/>\ncalm, peace, rest, of which tamas or inertia is the degradation or perversion in the lower nature (for each of the three gunas has<br \/>\nits divine counterpart in the higher nature). But tamas being the settled habit of the inferior nature tries to persist and keep or get<br \/>\nback its place. That is the reason why this kind of alternation takes place between the two. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Inert <i>sama <\/i>is <i>sama <\/i>still mixed with tamas<br \/>\n\t\u2014a quietude that has<br \/>\nno force of action (<i>tapas<\/i>) in it, no positive principle of happy ease, no positive light of knowledge<br \/>\n\t\u2014but is still calm, repose,<br \/>\nrelease from all disturbance. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">* <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">It [<i>tamas<\/i>] has to be transformed into <i>sama<\/i>, the peace and rest of<br \/>\nthe higher Prakriti, and then filled with <i>tapas <\/i>and <i>jyotih<\/i>. But this<br \/>\ncan only be done completely in the physical when the physical is finally transformed by the supramental Power.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Mahat__\">Mahat<br \/>\n <\/a><br \/>\n <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Mahat is, I suppose, the essential and original matrix of consciousness (involved, not evolved) in Prakriti out of which individuality and formation come.<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 50<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<b><a name=\"Tanmatra__\">Tanmatra<br \/>\n <\/a><br \/>\n <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Tanmatra is only the basis of matter. In the Sankhya the basis is<br \/>\nPradhana (of Prakriti) out of which come Buddhi and everything else. In the Vedanta it is spiritual substance out of which all<br \/>\ncomes. &nbsp;<br \/>\n &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t<font size=\"2\">Page<\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 51<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter Two &nbsp; The Sankhya-Yoga System &nbsp; Purusha &nbsp; Purusha is the conscious Being who supports all the action of Nature. 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