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Writings related to Kapila, founder of the Sankhya system of Indian Philosophy.

Tattvasamasa

Translation/ by Jon W. Fergus, Universal Theosophy, July, 2015 [Last Updated: May 27, 2021]

Introduction: “On the Tattvasamāsa and its place in Sāṃkhya,” by Prof. Max Müller SANSKRIT TRANSLITERATION (IAST) TRANSLATION 1. aṣṭau prakṛtayaḥ || 1. Eight Natures (prakṛtis)… Read More »Tattvasamasa

Introduction to Sankhya

Article/ by Jon W. Fergus, Universal Theosophy, August-September, 2013 [Serialized] [Last Updated: August 25, 2020]

[Note: this article is a continuation of our biography of Kapila Rishi.] Part 1 As we found in our earlier article [see our biography of… Read More »Introduction to Sankhya

Kapila Rishi

Article/ by Jon W. Fergus, Universal Theosophy, August, 2013 [Last Updated: August 25, 2020]

At the outset it must be admitted that the composition of a historical biography of Rishi Kapila is, in our age, a near impossibility. As… Read More »Kapila Rishi

Sāṃkhya and the Wisdom-Religion

Article/ by David Reigle, Fohat Magazine, (2000, 2015)

The existence of the once universal Wisdom-Religion was made known to the modern world by H. P. Blavatsky, who called its modern form Theosophy. She… Read More »Sāṃkhya and the Wisdom-Religion

Sāṃkhya Kārikā

Translation/ by Har Dutt Sharma, 1933 [Scanned PDF]

Salutations to that Kapila who, feeling compassion on the world sinking in the ocean of ignorance, constructed a boat in the shape of Sāmkhya for… Read More »Sāṃkhya Kārikā

On the Tattvasamāsa and its place in Sāṃkhya

Article/ by Friedrich Max Müller, 1899 [drawn from The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p.224-229 & 242-243]

However far the Kārikās of Īsvara-Kṛṣṇa may go back, they are what they are, a metrical work in the style of a later age, an… Read More »On the Tattvasamāsa and its place in Sāṃkhya

The Sankhya Philosophy

Article/ by Bertram Keightley, Lucifer Magazine, September-October, December, 1896; January-April, 1897 [Serialized]

Part I There are six great systems of philosophical thought, all native to the soil of India, which are accounted “orthodox” in that land where… Read More »The Sankhya Philosophy

The Sankhya and Yoga Philosophy

Article/ by A. J. Cooper-Oakley, The Theosophist, March, 1888

These two systems are so closely linked together that any attempt to treat the one without the other would be incomplete and unsatisfactory. The Sankhya… Read More »The Sankhya and Yoga Philosophy