Where the Outside is Within the Inside and the Inside Without the Outside| Meme-Trashing Party: Cause and Effect...Part II | 3 comments |
 6 Jul 2003 @ 17:12, by Max SandorFrom Nietsche and Wittgenstein back to the Indian Gurus: From the preface to "The Samkhya Philosophy" by Nandala Sinha, a book that sums it pretty much up on 700+ pages: "The first and foremost amongst these [the cardinal doctrines of the Samkkhya School-mx] is the Sat-Karya-Siddhanta or the Established Tenet of Existent Effect. It is is the Law of the Identity of Cause and Effect: what is called cause is the unmanifested state of what is called the effect, and what is called the effect is only the manifested state of what is called the cause; their substance is one of the same; differences of manifestation and non-manifestation give rise to distinction of Cause and Effect. The effect, therefore, is never non-existent; whether before its production, or whether after its destruction, is is always existent in the cause. For, nothing can come out of nothing, and nothing can altogether vanish out of existence." [p ii, Preface] AND, (this one is for Ed!) on page v it says: "The definition of Prakriti is that it is the state of equilibrium of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas, called the Gunas. It is the genus of which the Gunas are the species. Their state of equilibrium is their latent, potential, or inactive state, the state of not being developed into effects. The Gunas are extremely fine substances and are respectively the principlles of illumination, evolution, and involution, and the causes of pleasure, pain, and dullness. For, Sattva is light and illuminating, Rajas is active and urgent, Tamas is heavy and enveloping. They are in eternal and indissouluble conjunction with one another, and, by nature, mutually overpower, support, produce, and intimately mix with, one another." Well, and then, but hey, why am I typing all this ??? Ed, you have the book yourself, hehe.. One thing, lastly, that gave me a kick... page ix: "Purusha, on the other hand,is eternal consciousness undisturbed. Nothing can come into him, nothing can go out him; he is Kuta-stha, dwelling in the cave." hehe... Aganyu and Yemonja as core-fractals of Purusha and Prakriti, down to the nicknames...(Prakriti is also called the ocean of life)... cracks me up ;-) nothing much about the disturbance of the original equilibrum, except a reference to the vibration theory (Spandana) which is merely some labeling void of explanation... |