Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c8.s2.t1.3

v1.c8.s2.t1.3

with this difference that, according to the Sassatavādins, the soul is an active agent while the Puruṣa (= eternal attā) of the Sāṅkhya is an inactive onlooker, the active agent being Ahaṅkāra, the principle of individuation, which however, issues out of the Prakṛti or matter in its primeval form. The eternal Loka of the Sassatavādins is the evolved world in its variety.