The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita : 2-9. Swami Krishnananda
========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 23, 2020. Chapter 2: The Difficulties of the Spiritual Seeker - 9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. *The whole of the Samkhya philosophy is a system of cosmology; it is a description of the way in which things evolve from the Ultimate Reality. **Now I am speaking to you the classical Samkhya of Kapila, which is in some respects acceptable to the other schools of thought also, though not entirely. I will tell you in what way they are acceptable and in what way they are not acceptable. #The Supreme Being is called purusha in the Samkhya. The essential nature of this purusha is pure consciousness, awareness, brilliance, light, intelligence, self-awareness. The purusha is an Infinite Being, and not something that is in some place; it is not an individual person. Cr...