[Advaita-l] Query on Ishvara in the Yoga darshana

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Dear Shri ramesh Krishnamurthyji,
 
Yoga's Ishvara is where the purusha's are anchored to separate itself from the Prakriti but that there is no difference between the purusha and the Ishvara or Brahman is told in Vedanta. Sankhya is Nirishvara but to the advanced students of Sankhya the Svetasvatara upanishad talks about Brahman.
 
Regards,
 
Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Ramesh Krishnamurthy <rkmurthy at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy <rkmurthy at gmail.com>
Subject: [Advaita-l] Query on Ishvara in the Yoga darshana
To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 10:30 PM

pata~njali in his sUtra-s advocates Ishvara, thereby setting his
school marginally apart from the nirIshvaravAdin sAMkhya philosophy.

I would like to know whether this Ishvara in the classical yoga
darshana is merely a sAkShI (a sort of super puruSha among the many
puruSha-s of the sAMkhya school) or also a sRShTi-kartA.

-- 
santoShaH paramo lAbhaH satsa~NgaH paramA gatiH I
vicAraH paramaM j~nAnaM shamo hi paramaM sukham II
- yoga vAsiShTha
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