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A Series of Lessons on the Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India1174
on subtle and then gross forms, of matter in order to satisfy the desires of
the deluded Purushas for material activity and life. When the Involution has
reached its limit, there then sets in the stage of Evolution, as we have stated,
in which the Prakriti is urged into higher and higher forms, as the ascending
Purushas rise in the scale in their upward journey toward the Blissful State.
The influence or action of the Purushas causes an action on the part of the
Prakriti, and which the Sankhyas describe as akin to the action of particles
of steel when brought into close juxtaposition with a magnet, whereupon
they manifest a new action and arrangement foreign to their original custom.
And so Purusha is the magnet which affects the Prakriti into which it has
been attracted—for remember, that not only does the magnet attract the
bits of steel, but the latter likewise attracts the magnet itself, and changes are
produced upon both. From the close contiguity of the Purushas, the Prakriti
is given new activities, and changes are set into operation, whereby the
creative process results. In this description we have ignored the numerous
technicalities and terms in which the Sankhya teachings abound, the strange
Sanscrit terms, and the unfamiliar conceptions of the detail of the universal
involutionary and evolutionary processes tending to confuse the Western
mind and to divert the attention from the fundamental ideas.And, now,
this is the Sankhya System of Kapila stated briefly and as simply as possible.
The student of “The Yogi Philosophy” as set forth in our previous series
of lessons, and in which we have given the Inner Teachings of the Eclectic
School of the Hindu Thought, may see how the conceptions of Kapila fit
into our own teachings, and yet how they differ. Kapila directs the attention
of the student to the nature of the soul’s immersion and entanglement in the
principle of Matter in a most vivid manner, and accompanied with a degree
of poetic symbology that enables the mind to take hold of the idea readily.
And read in the light of the Inner Teachings, the teachings of Kapila are of
great interest and advantage to the student in his work of assimilating the
Truths of the Hindu Philosophy and outside of their undoubted historical
and philosophical interest. But the student will also see wherein the Sankhya