पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
from all ideas of personal God, is that intelligence is first in
the order of creation, and that out of intelligence comes what
we call gross matter. Modern philosophers say that
intelligence is the last to come. They say that unintelligent
things slowly evolve into animals, and from animals slowly
evolve into men. They claim that instead of everything
coming out of intelligence, intelligence is itself the last to
come. Both the religious and the scientific statement, though
seemingly directly opposed to each other, are true. Take an
infinite series A—B—A—B—A—B, etc. The question is
which is first, A or B. If you take the series as A—, you will
say that A is first, but if you take it as B—A you will say that
B is first. It depends on the way you are looking at it.
Intelligence evolves, and becomes the gross material, and this
again evolves as intelligence, and again evolves as matter
once more. The Sankhyas, and all religionists, put intelligence
first, and the series becomes intelligence then matter,
intelligence then matter. The scientific man puts his finger on
matter, and say matter then intelligence, matter then
intelligence. But they are both indicating the same chain.
Indian philosophy, however, goes beyond both intelligence
and matter, and finds a Purusa, or Self, which is beyond all
intelligence, and of which intelligence is but the borrowed
light.
20. द्रष्टा दृशिमात्रः शुद्धोऽपि प्रत्ययानुपश्यः ॥ २०॥
drashta drishimatrah shuddhopi pratyayanupashyah
The seer is intelligence only, and though pure, seen
through the colouring of the intellect.
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