IX. Consciousness and the Unmanifest of the Sankhyas
10:18 AM Posted In Psychology of Yoga: Consciousness: States and Grades Edit This 7 Comments »The Katha Upanishad discovers a still higher grade of consciousness what it terms as avyakta, unmanifest. The unmanifest is, perhaps, that state of consciousness in which individuality evaporates into such a colossal universality where self-consciousness on the individual scale gets merged into consciousness where self-consciousness as such serving as the source of creation in its ontological sense. This is what the Sankhyas also suppose, as is evident from their admittance of the unmanifest phase of Prakriti as the material cause of everything being absolutely distinct from Purusha which forms another pole of the causality. This deviation on the part of the Sankhyas seems to be due to the relative impenetrability of the unmanifest state of consciousness to the same individualized. Due to the contrariety between the manifest and the unmanifest, as also between the individuality and the universality, the individual manifestation of consciousness is very much likely to lose track of its unmanifest universality and thus treat itself as absolutely distinct from the latter, as seems practically to have happened with the Sankhyas taking the Avyakta as absolutely different from the Purusha. This obviously goes astray from the Upanishadic way of thinking according to which Avyakta and Purusha are not two divergent principles but two poises of one and the same reality, namely, consciousness. The difference in the poises lies in the universality of Avyakta and transcendence of the Purusha (Katha Up. III.11).
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