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The cosmicity of it all

In fact, the Puranas are not at all to be read as history and geography, nor are they to be regarded as fiction. Pandits who often interpret all the accounts of the Puranas as facts of our three-dimensional space and time do as much harm to the minds of people as many moderns who brush them aside as cock-and-bull stories. They belong to an order different from both history and fiction, though they may have superficial affinities with both.

by Dilbert
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What is Sankhya?

Sankhya is the first radical achievement of Indian world-view that we know of—and not just Indian, it is a great advancement in human thought. This is when most humans do not even know about it. But a time may well come when this singular breakthrough will be considered a quantum leap in human understanding, more significant than even our achievements in calculus and physical sciences.

by Pariksith Singh
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Sankhya: The True Experience of Purusha and Prakriti

Sankhya is not a mental activity. It is existential. What is the Sankhya experience that our sages talk about and use as the foundation of various darshanas? It is the moment when there is total awareness of things as they are, of oneself as part of the manifest world, without a point where the awareness is centered, when the subject too becomes the object, or as Krishnamurti said, the observer becomes the observed.

by Pariksith Singh