Sankhya Karika
The seventy-two karikas, for following the class. Open the one being taught.
Continue where you were From the three sorrows to the lineageView the complete mapWatch it grow, piece by piece1–21 · The foundation
1The three sorrows, and the search for a remedy2Scriptural remedies fail too; knowledge is better3The twenty-five: cause, effect and the soul4The three sources of knowledge5Perception, inference and testimony defined6How what cannot be seen is known7Eight reasons a thing goes unperceived8Prakriti is unseen because it is subtle9The effect exists before it is produced10How the Manifest differs from the Unmanifest11What the two share, and how the soul differs12The three gunas: nature, purpose, working13Sattva, rajas and tamas, each described14The gunas run through cause and effect alike15Five reasons the Unmanifest exists16How the Unmanifest acts through the gunas17Five reasons the soul exists18Why there are many souls19The soul: witness, liberated, indifferent, non-doer20The inert looks conscious, the soul like a doer21The lame and the blind: why they unite22–45 · Creation
22The order in which prakriti unfolds23The Intellect and its eight dispositions24The Ego and its twofold creation25The three forms of the Ego26The eleven senses27The Mind: a sense, and more28The functions of the ten senses29The inner three; the five vital airs30Together or in turn: how the four work31Each means serves the soul's purpose32The thirteen means and their effects33Inner and outer means; present and all time34What each sense takes as its object35The inner three are the home, the senses the doors36Like a lamp, all is presented to the Intellect37Why the Intellect is the principal38Subtle objects and gross elements39Three kinds of body40The subtle body: beginningless, migrating41The subtle body needs a support42Why the subtle body transmigrates: the actor43Dispositions innate and acquired44Righteousness rises, knowledge liberates45Detachment, attachment, power: their results46–55 · The creation of the Intellect
46The creation of the Intellect: four kinds47Five, twenty-eight, nine, eight48False knowledge: sixty-two divisions49Incapacity: twenty-eight50Complacency: nine51Accomplishment: eight; the three restraints52The two creations need each other53The fourteen kinds of beings54Where each guna prevails55Sorrow is in the nature of existence56–68 · Why prakriti creates, and liberation
56Prakriti creates for the soul's liberation57As milk flows for the calf58As people act for their desires59The dancer leaves the stage60Prakriti serves, asking nothing61Nothing is more shy than prakriti62No soul is bound or freed; prakriti is63Prakriti binds and frees itself64‘I am not’, ‘not mine’: the pure knowledge65The soul watches prakriti as a spectator66‘I have seen her.’ ‘I have been seen.’67The potter's wheel: the body runs on68Liberation, certain and permanent69–72 · The lineage
69The sage's profound knowledge70From Kapil to Asuri to Panchashikha71Received and condensed by Ishvarakrishna72Seventy verses from the Shashti TantraNothing matches.
The verse, its words, their meanings and the translation are quoted from Sankhyakarika: The Foundation of Spirituality by Acharya Dr. Kaushal Kumar and Jai Singhania, Vigyan Yoga Publication. Once opened, the whole text stays available without a connection.