The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: Chapter - 6-4: Swami Krishnananda.
==================================================================================================== Tuesday 03, February 2026, 05:40. Books Upanishad The Philosophy of the Panchadasi: 6-4. Chapter 6: Light on the Analogy of a Painted Picture-4. 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 1. ===================================================================================================== 4.Isvara or the Universal God: 1. The Yoga doctrine feels the necessity for an Isvara, inasmuch as Purusha and Prakriti, alone, cannot, by mutual contact and non-contact, explain the law and justice operating in the world, for there would be none to dispense the deserts of the Purusha if they are let free to themselves. There should be, therefore, an over-all, regulating law, above Purusha and Prakriti. This is the Isvara of the Yoga school. The Sruti (Antaryami-Brahmana) is in support of the Yoga in advancing the doctrine of Isvara, but we have different schools of thought defining Isvara in various ways...