Devishataka 89_63

89_63

O Devī, O knower, O wisdom! Ah, wonder! Of the Sāṃkhyas who possess the positive and negative [inferences]—vīta and avīta are technical terms of the Sāṃkhyas, meaning direct and indirect arguments demonstrating the existence of the primal nature (pradhāna) and the soul (puruṣa)—your status as wealth is 'vitta', knowledge—that is, the essential reality. For they declare liberation to come from knowledge alone. Because you have extended that truth—you have expanded that truth, the ultimate reality, the nature of the Supreme Brahman. What kind of truth? Where widespread pains, extensive afflictions, have departed, have vanished. The gist is: you alone are the supreme Pradhāna for the Sāṃkhyas. (89)