[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 7.18.89\_159 # Skandapurana 7.18.89\_159 Skandapurāṇa 7.18.89\_159 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.18.89\_159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_159) sanatkumāra uvāca yogaṃ sāṃkhyañca sarvatra dvividhaṃ jñānamucyate . tatra sāṃkhyaratāḥ kecit kecid yogapathāśritāḥ 1 .. 1 .. avyaktaṃ prakṛtiścaiva tathāhaṅkāra eva3 ca . aṣṭau prakṛtayo hyetāstanmātraḥ pañcabhiḥ saha . . 2 . . pañca buddhīndriyāṇyāhuḥ pañca karmendriyāṇi ca . manaḥ pañca ca bhūtāni vikārāḥ ṣoḍaśa smṛtāḥ ..3 .. puruṣaḥ pañcaviṃśaśca sarvārambhavivarjitaḥ . nityaḥ sarvagataḥ sūkṣmaścetāvān4 triguṇejjhitaḥ . .4. . saṃśuddho vimalo bhoktā akartā sākṣivat sthitaḥ . viditvā na viśantyenaṃ bhūyaḥ saṃsārapañjaram .. 5.. pañcaviṃśati tattvāni sāṃkhyairetāni yogibhiḥ . proktāni yad5 viditvā hi mucyate kila janmanaḥ6 . .6 . . - - - - - - - - -- - - 30 devatātiryakṣu - ka. kha. . 31 nirdvandve - ka. kha. . 32 vijane - kha. . 33 jñātvā (?) . 34 brahma - ka.. 35 mucyatīti - ka. . 1 yogapathe ratāḥ (?),. gratāḥ - ka . 2 ca mahāṃścaiva () . ve. ..meva - kha. . 4 ścaitāvān - ka, ścaityavān (?), ..ścetana (?) . 5 yān - ka., ye yā - kha. . 6 jantavaḥ - ka. . - - - - - - - - -- - - > Sanatkumāra said: > Yoga and Sāṃkhya are everywhere declared to be twofold knowledge. / There, some are devoted to Sāṃkhya, while others have resorted to the path of Yoga. > The unmanifest and Prakṛti, and likewise the ego-sense: / these are indeed eight material principles, together with the five subtle elements. > Five are called the sense faculties of cognition, and five the sense faculties of action; / the mind and the five gross elements are remembered as the sixteen modifications. > And Puruṣa is the twenty-fifth, free from all undertakings, / eternal, omnipresent, subtle, conscious, devoid of the three guṇas, > pure, stainless, the experiencer, a non-doer, standing like a witness. / Knowing him, they do not enter again into this cage of worldly existence. > These twenty-five principles have been declared by the Sāṃkhya yogins, / knowing which indeed one is freed from rebirth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.18.89\_158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_158) - [Next: 7.18.89\_160](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_160) - [Up: 7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.18.89_159) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.89_159) · Pramāṇa