The Unseen Seer and the Field: Consciousness in Sāmkhya and Yoga
The Problem of Pure Consciousness March 29, 1990 Christopher Chapple
Abstract From the earliest text of Indian philosophy, the g Veda, comes an image that has profoundly influenced the Upanisads, the formal schools of Saryikhya and Yoga as well as epic and purānic literature. This image is a simple one: two birds in the same tree, one active, the other looking on. The identical passage quoted in the epigraph is repeated in the Mu0cjaka Upani ad (Ill:1: 1) and...