Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.92

c16.92

**Sāṁkhya Discipline.** The Sāṁkhya discipline aims at the realization of the self-conscious Principle (*Purusha*) as distinct from the mental states, the bodily functions, and the events of the external world, subsumed under the term *Prakṛiti* or Nature. This can be achieved by Virtue and Wisdom, by dispassion and clarity of consciousness. Passionate attachment leads to transmigration. *Sāṁkhya* also recognizes that Error has to be removed before supreme wisdom or *mukti* can be attained. Error (*viparyaya*) is of five forms, viz. Ignorance, Egotism, Passion, Hatred, and Attachment to the body as also to the objects of sense [*Kārikā*, 44–7].