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Sense of agency
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Sense of agency
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the mind in Sāṃkhya & Yoga
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Trivedi
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Hemal P.
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1991-
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Hemal P. Trivedi
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Edwin
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Edwin Bryant
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Jiang
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Tao Jiang
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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Sāṃkhya and Yoga are two of the most renowned and influential schools of Indian philosophy. With its rigorous introduction to metaphysics, Sāṃkhya revolutionizes Indian philosophy by delineating the constituents of reality: puruṣa (consciousness) and prakṛti (matter). Yoga, the sister school of Sāṃkhya, borrows from the latter’s metaphysics and introduces a psychologically based paradigm that allows for practitioners to apply the metaphysical teachings of Sāṃkhya. Using the metaphysical and psychological constructs of the mind in both schools, this paper serves to ask the question: Which school of thought provides more of a sense of agency to the practitioner? In other words, which school allows the practitioner to feel that he/she is an agent of his/her actions? Using the Sāṃkhya Kārikā to represent Sāṃkhya, this paper explores the impersonal feelings evoked by the predominance of metaphysics in this text. Using the Yoga Sūtras to represent Yoga, this paper reveals the highly personal and egoistic reading provided by psychology and practice based verses. Using three concepts to measure a sense of agency (frequency, language of the commentators and results of personal effort) it is clear that Yoga provides the practitioner with a more promising feeling of ownership over his/her pursuits.
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Religious Studies
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Sankhya
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Yoga
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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M.A.
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by Hemal P. Trivedi
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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