Mahābhārata

Vasishtha said: Thus, O best of kings, the Sāṃkhya philosophy has been explained to you. Now, please tell me in due order about knowledge and ignorance. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Ignorance is said to be the unmanifest, characterized by creation and dissolution. The knowledge that is free from creation and dissolution is the twenty-fifth. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The ignorance of each other, and the order of their knowledge, As stated by the sages, O son, is the illustration of this Sāṃkhya. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The intellect is said to be the sense of knowledge of all the organs of action. And we have heard that there are also special senses of knowledge. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The wise declare that the five special senses are the mind. They declare that the five elements are the mind. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

There is no doubt that the ego is of the five elements. And the intellect of the ego is knowledge, O Lord of men. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The unmanifest is the nature of the intellect, the supreme lord of the principles. O best of men, knowledge is to be known, and the supreme injunction is remembered. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

They declare the unmanifest to be the supreme knowledge, the twenty-fifth. It is said to be all of everything. O king, it is to be known as the knowledge of knowledge. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Knowledge is said to be unmanifest, and the knowable is the twenty-five. Similarly, knowledge is unmanifest, and the knower is the twenty-five. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I have told you the truth about knowledge and ignorance in particular. Know from me what has been said about the imperishable and the perishable. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Both these are said to be perishable, both these are also imperishable. But I shall explain the cause, as they are known in reality. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

These two are considered to be the lord, without beginning or end. These two are said to be the names of reality by those who contemplate knowledge. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The Unmanifest is said to be the Imperishable because it is subject to creation and dissolution. This, again and again, is evolving for the creation of the qualities. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The great and others are the qualities of the Self, which arise from each other. The field is said to be the support of these, which is the twenty-five. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

But when the net of qualities is withdrawn into the unmanifest Self, then the twenty-five are dissolved along with those qualities. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then the qualities dissolve into the qualities, and Nature becomes one. And when the knower of the field also dissolves into that field, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then the Prakriti, called the Guṇas, becomes the Aksara. And the Guṇas become Nirguṇa, by the return of the Guṇas. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And in the same way, the knower of the field, when the knowledge of the field is destroyed, is devoid of qualities by nature. Thus we have heard. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

When this (universe) becomes perishable, then he knows the nature of the qualities and the absence of qualities in the Self. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then he becomes pure by avoiding the Prakṛti. When the wise one understands that "I am different, this is different", ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then he becomes different, and does not become mixed. And by nature, O King, he is seen to be neither mixed nor different. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

But when he despises that net of qualities as natural, and sees another seer, then, seeing, he does not burn. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

What have I done that I have to live through this time? Like a fish that follows a net out of ignorance, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

For I myself, through delusion, have taken one person for another, just as a fish, through ignorance of water, has followed me here. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Just as a fish, through ignorance, does not recognize water as itself, so, through ignorance, I know the Self as other. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

May I be cursed, who am so foolish, that I have again and again fallen into this mire, and, through delusion, have followed one man after another, one man after another. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

This is the bond here, with him there is liberation. Equality, oneness, has come about. I am just as he is. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I see equality here, I am equal to him. For this one is clear, and I am also like this. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I, who have been engaged in this through ignorance and delusion, I, who am free from attachment, have remained attached to this time. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I was captivated by her, and did not notice the time. How can I live with the high, the low, and the middle? ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

How can I live here with this same vehicle? I am going now, because of not being enlightened. May this be firm. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I shall not live with her, for this is the time of deception. I am deceived by her, for she, who is without change, has made me change. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

This is not her fault, but mine, that I was attached to her, and she turned away from me. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Then I, the formless, was established in many forms, and the formless one, though formless, was oppressed by the sense of "mine". ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

By the non-existence of Prakṛti in those various wombs, and by the non-existence of the ego in those various wombs, and by the mind which is present in ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I have no need of this self-created ego, which, having made the self many, again unites me. Now I am enlightened, free from ego and self-importance, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

This egoism, which is always the cause of the notion of "I," Having abandoned this, I shall resort to the diseaseless. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

By this I shall attain equality, not by this unconsciousness. It is not proper for me to be with this, not to be one with this. Thus, from the supreme ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

One should control the imperishable, having abandoned the perishable, the faultless, The unmanifest, having the characteristics of the manifest, having qualities, and also without qualities, Having first seen ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

This is said to be the difference between the imperishable and the perishable, as an example for you. Here, I have explained it to you, who are endowed with knowledge, according to the ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

Unquestionable, subtle, awakened, and pure, I shall explain it to you further. Understand it as I have heard it. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

I have spoken of Sāṃkhya and Yoga because of the teachings of the two scriptures. Whatever scripture is taught in Sāṃkhya is the same as the Yoga view. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The knowledge that awakens is that of the Sankhyas, O Lord of the Earth. It is clearly stated there for the benefit of the disciples. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

And this is the great treatise, say the wise. And in this treatise, there is again yoga, again the arrow, ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The twenty-fifth principle is not seen by the king. But the supreme principle of the Sankhyas has been described here as it is. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.

The Buddha, the unawakened, the one who is truly awakening, and the one who is awakening and the awakened, are said to be the display of yoga. ℹ︎This translation was generated by AI and may be inaccurate. More information about the AI-driven translations process can be found in the About page.