Soul Meets Body: An initial examination of the Samkhya school
Well written, I am on my personal journey to discover what being a Hindu means. I am appalled by the fact that the true knowledge and the diversity of different schools and line of thoughts has been dissolved and sublimated into a crude understanding of what Hinduism means.<p>I have thought about it a lot, and I think the main reason is that there is no single doctrine &#x2F; school that everyone agreed upon in the past. I see this is as the pinnacle of free-thinking.  The seeming consensus among people who follow Abrahamic religions has provided the functionality to conserve itself in some tangible form.<p>Whereas the meaning of Hinduism is just lost, because there is no religion single religion as such.
Nothing comes close to the deep thought and inspection that philosophers (sages&#x2F;rishis whatever you want to name them) of the ancient India. All their &quot;work&quot; has been hidden under layers of what people assume is just religious &quot;stuff&quot;.<p>Carl Jung, Nikola Tesla and innumerable people have invested time in discovering their true essence.<p>The concept of &quot;religion&quot;, &quot;spirituality&quot;, &quot;god&quot; carry a lot weight, especially in the modern world.
I myself (being a Hindu), assumed that all that was present in Vedic texts was just references to god, different kinds of gods, different rituals etc. And as a modern day human, I just assumed that these are just things of the past and now we are evolved enough to ignore these concepts and move towards the future.<p>And I was proved entirely wrong when I started reading The Upanishads, which are part of the Vedic literature. The concepts are so abstract that different schools&#x2F;sub-religions spawned just on the basis of different interpretations. Roughly dualistic and non-dualistic interpretations.<p>I can go on and on about my discovery. In fact I am writing about this here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pulkitsharma07.github.io&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;source-0&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pulkitsharma07.github.io&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;source-0&#x2F;</a><p>I am really happy to see this post on HN, hoping this doesn&#x27;t get flagged.