| It is expounded in the Sankhya Karika, an important relic of bold rationalistic Indian thought. |
| The Sankhya doctrine had announced that Brahman and the gods did not exist, but only nature and the soul. |
| The Sankhya system, which Buddha found in existence, presupposes the Vedanta system. |
| He also assimilated the three characteristics called gunas, specified in the Sankhya literature, into his teachings. |
| The other two potentialities described in the Sankhya philosophy, rajas, physical dynamism and tamas, insensibility, are rendered ineffective. |
| Sri Krishna makes several references to the gunas and the Sankhya literature in his sermon to Arjuna in the rendition of Bhagavad-Gita. |
