Only the highest Rishis conversant with the Sankhya and the Yoga Systems know that Supreme Soul which Sankhyas and Yogins and believers in all other Systems say is beyond the Understanding, which is considered as Knower and endued with the highest wisdom on account of its renouncing all consciousness of identi-fication with nature, which is above the attribute of Ignorance or Error, which is Unmanifest, which is beyond all attributes, which is called the Supreme, which is dissociated from all attributes, which ordains all things, which is Eternal and Immutable, which overrules Nature and all her attributes, and which, getting over twenty-four topics of enquiry, forms the twenty-fifth.
यत् तद् बुद्धेः परं प्राहुः सांख्या योगाश्च सर्वशः। बुद्ध्यमानं महाप्राज्ञमबुद्धपरिवर्जनात्॥ अप्रबुद्धमथाव्यक्तं सगुणं प्राहुरीश्वरम्। निर्गुणं चेश्वरं नित्यमधिष्ठातारमेव च॥ प्रकृतेश्च गुणानां च पञ्चविंशतिकं बुधाः। सांख्ययोगे च कुशला बुध्यन्ते परमैषिणः॥