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Samkhya Karika Class 07 06292022.mp4
No full textKnowledge of supersensory objects is obtained through inference based on analogy or general observation; and the knowledge of imperceptible objects not established even by [inference] is established through testimony and revelation
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No full textSūtra Class Zoom recording from February 22, 2022 involving sutras of Book II and discussion of related topics
Samkhya Karika Class 25 11302022.mp4
No full textAnd from that contrast it is established that this puruṣa is a witness, isolated, neutral, a spectator, and a non-agent
Samkhya Karika Class 09 07202022.mp4
No full textThe non-perception of [Nature] is due to its subtlety and not due to its nonexistence. It is cognized through its effects. These effects are mahat and the rest, whose qualities are both similar and dissimilar to prakṛti (the primordial Nature)
Samkhya Karika Class 27 12_21__2022.mp4
No full textThe union of puruṣa and pradhāna, like that of a lame person and a blind person, is for the purpose of [spirit, puruṣa] seeing the pradhāna and for the purpose of isolating the puruṣa. From this [association] creation proceeds
Samkhya Karika Class 23 11092022.mp4
No full textThe plurality of the spirit is verily established from these three: (1) the individual allotment of birth, death, and the instruments (of cognition and action), (2) the non-simultaneity of activities, and (3) the diverse modifications of the three attributes (guṇas)
Samkhya Karika Class 20 10052022.mp4
No full textThere exists the un-manifest as the cause [of the manifest particulars]. It functions through the three attributes by combinations and transformations, which arise from the predominance of one or more of the attributes. Similarly, water [takes on various tastes]
Samkhya Karika Class 21 10262022.mp4
No full textThe spirit’s existence is established by five points: the aggregate is for another’s sake, there is the absence of the three at- tributes and their related properties, there must be some controller, there must be some experiencer, and activity is for the sake of isolation
Samkhya Karika Class 08 07062022.mp4
No full text[The eight reasons for the possible imperceptibility of an existing object are] excessive distance, proximity, injury to the senses, absent-mindedness, subtlety, obstruction, being over- powered (by other objects), and intermixture with similar objects
8-12-2000_GitaQA_SSC.pdf
No full textBaba Hari Dass answers questions after a class on the Bhagavad Gīt