{"collection":"Hinduism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe08_sbe0853_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe08_sbe0853_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_sbe08_sbe0853_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe08/sbe0853.htm","summary":"This is a passage of Hindu philosophical scripture \u2014 likely from the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata's Mok\u1e63adharma section \u2014 presented alongside scholarly commentary footnotes from what appears to be a 19th-century academic translation. The text is a cosmological discourse attributed to Brahman, explaining the S\u0101\u1e43khya philosophical account of primordial creation. The core argument traces how Mahat (cosmic intellect, the first product of creation) gives rise to Aha\u1e43k\u0101ra (egoism or the ego-principle) \u2014 the moment the cosmos becomes self-aware as \"I\" \u2014 which then functions as the generative source of deities, mind, the senses, and the three worlds. Distinctively, the passage maps a tripartite nature onto Aha\u1e43k\u0101ra corresponding to the three gu\u1e47as (goodness, passion, darkness), each responsible for a different dimension of manifestation: divine beings and mind, activating energy, and the material world respectively. The footnotes, drawing on texts like the S\u0101\u1e43khya-k\u0101rik\u0101 and S\u0101\u1e43khya-s\u0101ra, show active scholarly debate over terminology (e.g., whether \"khy\u0101ti\" or \"Brahman\" is original) and interpretive nuance between commentators Arjuna Mi\u015bra and N\u012blaka\u1e47\u1e6dha. This would interest readers studying S\u0101\u1e43khya cosmology, the relationship between Ved\u0101ntic and S\u0101\u1e43khya metaphysics, or the textual history of the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata's philosophical sections.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8: The Bhagavad-G\u00eet\u00e2: Anug\u00eet\u00e2: Chapter XXVI","tradition":"Hinduism","translated_text":null,"word_count":648}