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Often appears with: transformation series · three nature potencies · the rise and fall of greatness · spiritual man and liberation · reason and the intellect · morality · language, naming, and meaning · fate, destiny, and necessity · extension and motion · abstract ideas
Usually: argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1) · the fall of the great (1) · reverence (1) · skepticism (1)
He claims expelling matter removes many skeptical and irreligious disputes, then turns to abstract ideas, using time and extension to argue abstraction creates confusion.
that only fortress, without which your Epicureans, Hobbists, and the like, have not even the shadow of a pretence, but become the most cheap and easy triumph in the world. 94. OF IDOLATORS.--The existence of Matter, or bodies unperceived, has not only been the main support of Atheists and Fatalists, but on the same principle doth Idolatry likewise in all its various forms depend. Did men but consider that the sun, m…
Patanjali describes the completion of the three nature potencies’ transformations, dividing them into moments, after which time yields to duration; the spiritual man ends the eternal cycle of change and attains lasting being.
32. Thereafter comes the completion of the series of transformations of the three nature potencies, since their purpose is attained. It is a part of the beauty and wisdom of the great Indian teachings, the Vedanta and the Yoga alike, to hold that all life exists for the purposes of Soul, for the making of the spiritual man. They teach that all nature is an orderly process of evolution, leading up to this, designed f…