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 Four key concepts and supportive, four "key ideas", we immediately introduced in the

heart of Indian spirituality: karma, maya, nirvana, and yoga. You can write a coherent

his-tory of Indian thought on the basis of any of these fundamental concepts or "powerful

ideas" inevitably forced oars sees us talking about the other three. In terms of Western

philosophy, we will say that since the post-Vedic era, India has been covered mainly

include: 1) the law of universal causation, the man who sympathizes with the cosmos and

condemns him to transmigrate indefinitely; is the law of karma, 2) to the mysterious

process that creates and sustains the Cosmos, and to keep it, makes pos-sible "eternal

return" of stocks: the Maya, the illusion cos-mica supported (most severe even: valued)

while this man blinded by nescience (avidya), 3 °) the absolute reality "placed" in some

hand beyond the cosmic illusion woven by Maya, and also outside the limits of human

experience conditioned by karman: pure Being, the Absolute, with whatever name it may

be known: the Self (atman), Brahman, the unconditioned, the transcendent, immortal,

indestructible, Nirvana, etc.., 4 °) finally, the means to reach the Being, the proper

techniques to acquire the liberation (moksha, mukti): all these me-dia or techniques is in

fact Yoga.

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80% of the 60,000 thoughts you have every day are negative, and 95% of those negative thoughts are recurring,

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Babies have more bones than adults; as they age, several bones (such as the plates in the skull) fuse together to become one single bone. At birth, we have approximately 270 individual bones and by adulthood, the number is approximately 206 as a result of these fusions

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SANKHYA

Soteriological techniques, like metaphysical doctrines do

find their reason for being in this universal suffering, because their value depends on the

measure in which liberates man from the "pain". The human experience of any nature

whatsoever, engenders suffering. "The human body is pain, because pain is the seat of the

senses, objects, perceptions are suffering, because they lead to suffering-up: the pleasure

is still suffering because of this continued sufferings" (Anirudh, the Commenting on the

Samkhya-Sutra, II, 1). E Isvara Krsna, author of the Samkhya oldest treaty, states that the

basis of this philosophy are the desire of man to escape the torture of three trials: the

celestial disgrace (pro-convened by the gods), of misfortune Terrestrial (caused by the

na-ture), and pain inside or body (Samkhya Karika, I).

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The Samkhya know the cause of "servitude", ie the human condition, suffering,

ignorance is metaphysical, that under karmic law is passed from generation to generation,

but the historical moment that This ignorance made his appearance could not be

established, as it is impossible to determine the date of creation. The union of self and life

as well as the "be-servitude" that results from it (for I) have no history are beyond the

time they are eternal. Wanting to find a solution to these problems is not only

superfluous, it is a trifle. These problems are ill posed, and according to ancient custom

Brahminical (sankara, ad Vedanta-Sutra, III, 2, 17) observed by Buddha himself several

times, to ill-posed problem is answered with silence. The only certainty we have in this

regard is that man is in that condition, give it the earliest times, and that the goal of

knowledge is not left empty-bus of the first cause and the historical origins of this

condition, but the. release.

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