The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 12- 3. Swami Krishnananda.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,August 13,, 2021.7:57. PM. Chapter -12. God and the Universe - 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is, again, the ahamkara, the Cosmic Self-Sense. The mahat, the Cosmic Understanding, or Intelligence, is above the ahamkara, according to the Samkhya, and beyond that the indescribable continuum, the avyakta, as it is called, the prakriti of the Samkhya, beyond all which is the Supreme Resplendence of the Absoluteācall it purusha or by any other name according to the schools of thought. These are, broadly speaking, the constituents of the entire layers of the cosmos. These are the eight forms of prakriti, according to the Bhagavadgita, though the Samkhya classification differs here in the manner of the gradations and specifications of these principles. B...