Essays on the Gita, First Series (Arya Publishing House, 1922)
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SANKHYA AND YOGA Ra jayopfa it has practically to be put aside whe n its result has been attained or ^ airy^aie" ceases^v^ soon t o be j tjpeans fo r the Vo^ a^or The Gita a means of the Jnghest ascentanS"l? 5nrin T ^ after t he complete libemtjoh of the soul. This much lias to be said in order lo~avoid any confusion of thought that might be created by the use of familiar words in a connotation wider than the technical sense now familiar to us. Still, all that is essential in the Sankhya and Yoga systems, all in them that is large, catholic and universally true, is admitted by the Gita^ even though it does not limit itself by them like the opposing schools.
Sankhya is the catlmlic and Vedantic Sankl^a s^ch as we find it m its first, principles arid erements the great Vedantic synthesis ^f the Upaiiish^ds and in the later developments of the Puranas. Jts idea of Yoga is, that large idea £f a principally subjective practice and inner chan^, necessary for the finding of the Self or the union with God, (rf which the Rajayoga is only one special application The Git a insists that Sankhya and Yoga are not two different, iiKoi^atible and discordant systems, but one in their principle and aim ; they differ onlyln their meth od and starting-point. The Sankhya also is^ a Yoga, Tut i t p r oceeds J^ kriowled^^^ ; k starts, that is to say, by „ intellectual discrimination arid analysis of the principles of our being and attains its aim through the vision and possession of the Truth. on the other hand, proceeds works ; it TTm its first principle Karmayoga ; butit lOI ESSAYS ON TliE GITA is evident from the whole teaching of the Gita and its later definitions that the word karma is used .in a veiyjwide sense and that by Yog^jis^ meant the selfless devotion, of all the inner as_.well a.s the outer activities as a sacrifice to"’th]rTCord_of all works, offered to the Eternal as Master of all the souVs energies and austerities. Yoga is the practice pf .the TruA of which Knowledge givS the vision, and its practice has for its motor-power a spirit of illumined devotion, of calm or fervent consecration to that which knowledge sees to be the Highest.
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