Canto 11: General HistoryChapter 24: The Philosophy of Sankhya

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 11.24.29

esha sankhya-vidhih proktah

samsaya-granthi-bhedanah

pratilomanulomabhyam

paravara-drisa maya

SYNONYMS

eshah -- this; sankhya-vidhih -- method of Sankhya (analytic philosophy); proktah -- spoken; samsaya -- of doubts; granthi -- the bondage; bhedanah -- which breaks; pratiloma-anulomabhyam -- in both direct and reverse order; para -- the situation of the spiritual world; avara -- and the inferior situation of the material world; drisa -- by Him who sees perfectly; maya -- by Me.

TRANSLATION

Thus I, the perfect seer of everything material and spiritual, have spoken this knowledge of Sankhya, which destroys the illusion of doubt by scientific analysis of creation and annihilation.

PURPORT

Lord Sri Krishna has explained that the material mind accepts and rejects many different concepts of life, generating innumerable false arguments about the actual process of perfection. But a person who takes shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can see everything with clear intelligence. One who understands how the Supreme Lord creates and annihilates can be liberated from material bondage and devote himself to the eternal service of the Supreme Lord.

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to the Eleventh Canto, Twenty-fourth Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "The Philosophy of Sankhya."

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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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