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So this Kapila, Devahuti, son of Devahuti Kapila, His Saṅkhya yoga means bhakti-vitana-yogam: how bhakti, devotional service to the Lord, is expanded. That is Saṅkhya yoga. And how it is received, that is also stated here, tattva amnayam yad pravadanti saṅkhyam. Amnayam, by disciplic succession. No philosophical speculation, but as it is received by predecessor, by tradition, amnayam. Tattvam amnayam. We cannot manufacture tattva. That is improper way of understanding the truth. Generally, the Western philosophers, they try to understand the Absolute Truth by the ascending process. There are two processes of understanding the Absolute Truth. One is called ascending process, or inductive logic, and another process is descending process, or deductive logic. So ascending process is based on speculation, and descending process is based on fact.    (More...)

So the perfection of these activities, of the soul, that he has got already indriyas... We are acting with our hands, legs, ears, eyes, nose, everything, karmendriya. Ten kinds of activities are being performed by the senses, and there are five kinds of sense objects, tanmatra, fifteen, and the eight elements material-earth, water, fire... So fifteen and eight, twenty-three, and the soul, this is twenty-four. That is the subject matter of Saṅkhya philosophy, how these twenty-four different items are combined together and work. This is the study of Saṅkhya philosophy. Yesterday we talked about saṅkhyam. Tattvamnayam yat pravadanti saṅkhyam. So there is material Saṅkhya philosophers. They simply satisfied, simply studying these twenty-four types of elements. But the real Saṅkhya philosophy, as propounded by Kapiladeva, that is bhakti. That is... He has said, bhakti-vitana-yogam. The activities of the spiritual field, that is Saṅkhya philosophy, not of the material fields. In the material field you will find these twenty-four kinds of elements analyzed, but beyond these twenty-four there is soul, and the soul is acting. That is called spiritual activities, or bhakti-yoga.    (More...)