Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 14, 2021. 7:40. PM. Chapter 10: The One Supreme Absolute Alone Is - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bhagavadgita accepts the Samkhya principles of the dualism of prakriti and purusha, with a great proviso that there is something beyond these two principles which are like the two wings of the bird of the Supreme Being, but the wings themselves are not the bird. We have a similar thought in Spinoza in the West, who had a notion of the Supreme Being by way of what we call substance, with two attributes of space and time. The attributes of Spinoza are something like the purusha and prakriti of the Samkhya according to the Mahabharata, the Manu Smirti and the Bhagavadgita – not Kapila's or Ishvarakrishna's Samkhya. There is a practical utility in ...