Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.47

v2.c13.47

¹ The stress lies on karman. For what we call soul, that is, perception, conception, thought, will, etc., belongs on the Indian theory, especially that of Sāṅkhya—and the Epic is dominated by this—to the domain of matter, that is of the woman. The Jīva or Puruṣa (“soul” in the Indian meaning), which corresponds to the man’s nature, has really no connection whatever with anything of this.