Indian Philosophy v2.c24.s32.2

v2.c24.s32.2

We have seen how the elements of the Sāṃkhya were subordinated in the Upaniṣads and the Bhagavadgītā to an idealistic theism. While the Epic philosophy borrowed the cosmogony and the theory of the absolute passivity of puruṣa from the Sāṃkhya, it did not regard puruṣa and prakṛti as self-sufficient realities, but represented them as modes of one ultimate Brahman. In its classical form, however, the Sāṃkhya does not uphold theism. In its indifference to the supremacy of an absolute spirit, as well as in its doctrine