samkhya

Vaisheshika , the school of nature and its categories. Samkhya , the great dualist enumeration of reality.

The scheme takes the twenty-five tattvas of the older Samkhya philosophy, which run from primordial matter up through mind and the elements, and crowns them with eleven higher principles that Samkhya never had.

It is the exact reverse of the way the Samkhya philosophy says the world evolves , from the unmanifest down through intelligence and ego to the elements.

…darshanas , the orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, paired with the Samkhya system.

It is the foundational scripture of the Yoga darshana , one of the six classical schools of Indian philosophy, paired in its theory with the Samkhya school.

The Samkhya school, the tradition's great analyst of the components of nature, counts it as threefold instead: buddhi, ahamkara and manas, with the functions Vedanta assigns to chitta folded into buddhi.

In the analysis the Samkhya system gives, the manifest world unfolds into ever grosser forms, and the last and most concrete of them are the five great elements, the pancha bhuta : prithvi (earth), ap (water), …

The strands of nature The theory comes, in its systematic form, from Samkhya , one of the oldest of the six classical schools of Hindu philosophy, whose analysis of reality underlies a great deal of yoga, Ayurv…