An understanding Sankhya Philosophy is very helpful to comprehend the deep messages buried in the classic Vedic texts such as the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. Sankhya is a foundational dualistic philosophy which presents that life is the merging of our eternal, unchanging consciousness (purusha) with the temporary, mutable physical environment (prakriti). Prakriti seems real because all of our sense organs are contained within prakriti. These organs of motor action and sense perception interact with our mind, ego, and intellect and provide all the information we have about the world around us. However, the mind, ego and intellect are also evolutes of prakriti. This is the reason we can not know and examine our consciousness through our intellect and senses.
In order to realize our true self as consciousness, we must turn off the influences of our sense organs and stop the action of the mind. This is the higher path of yoga - transcending the chitta to realize the self as the self.
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