ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the "man", all-important in Indian Yoga, became in Sakyan Jhana, dimmed, even blotted out, so much so that the Commentator has to remind his hearers that there was a man at work in the exercise of it. Jacobi and Garbe—Pischel and Deussen follow them, and between them they practically converted Oldenberg—for drawing attention in the last generation to the way in which the Sankhyan influence had affected Sakya. When the Sakyan spoke of evildoing and its retribution he no more spoke of mind, he spoke of the "man", the very self, that who could alone be held to be "responsible", as no "minding" could be. In so seeing the mind as matter for computation, for analysis, for categorizing, Sankhya was careful to exclude from mind, the man or self. By the unknown commentator, the self is accepted at the value it bears in the Dhammapada, and this is the opposite of something unreal and depreciated.
