A History of Indian Philosophy v2.c19.s6.23

v2.c19.s6.23

The *Sāṃkhya-kārikā*, however, holds that, when true knowledge is attained (*samyagjñānādhigama*), and when in consequence none of the *karmas* of undetermined fruition (*aniyata-vipāka*), accumulated through beginningless time, are able to ripen for bearing fruit, the body may still continue to remain simply by the inertia, as it were, of the old *avidyā*; just as even after the potter has ceased to operate the potter's wheel may continue to move as a result of the momentum which it has acquired (*cakra-bhramivad dhṛta-śarīraḥ*)¹.