ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes some of the central aspects of the Samkhyayoga teaching promoted in the texts of the Kapil Math tradition. "Sivoktayogayuktih" was published in 1892; the same year Hariharananda Aranya took initiation as samnyasin in Triveni. Hariharananda Aranya tries to convey the intended meaning by repeating it in the style of the textual tradition. The most important of Aranya's early writings is the Yogakarika, which was written perhaps around the same time as Sivoktayogayuktih. The main theme that pervades all of Hariharananda Aranya's texts, from the early texts to his last, is that of samadhi. In order to understand Samkhyayoga, samadhi needs to be understood. In Aranya's commentaries on the yamas and niyamas, he mentions his ideas about the ideal yogin. The Samkhya categories are used to instruct in the methods of attaining the salvific goal. The Kapil Math tradition mostly refers to the divine being as Hiranyagarbha but also Bhutadi.
