Apparently the practice of TM is based on the ancient Sankhya philosophy established by the Sage Kapila, which translated means the red one.
So, what do we know about the Sage Kapila? According to the Sage Kapila, creation is impossible, for something cannot come out of nothing; change implies something to change; "whatever is, always is, and whatever is not, never is". Samkhya pertains to number. What number? The one Purusha and the many prakriti - there are three gunas born of nature, five gross elements and there are the thirty-two evolutes. "And from the contrast with that which is composed of the three constituents, there follows, for the Purusha, the character of Being, a witness; freedom from misery, neutrality, percipience, and non-agency." Let's review what we know about the Samkhya tradition: In this tradition the phenomenal universe is considered a dynamic order, an eternal process unfolding, without beginning or end. In order to avoid the fallacy of regressus ad infinitum, which is not consistent with rational solutions, Samkhya postulates an Uncaused Cause, termed in Sanskrit Purusha, a category which remains undefined, as it is beyond, or transcendental to, the intellect. This absolute is "beyond time and space, without attribute and form, and is forever removed from empirical scrutiny." True evolution, according to Samkhya, exists ONLY in the transformation of cosmic consciousness, Purusha, to the physical substance, prakriti, and that the manifestations of the physical and biological world, are only modifications of only five gross elements. Samkhya views the evolutes of matter from its cosmic cause as a process of unfolding, a projection of potentialities according to fixed laws that can be understood by man. Works cited: 'Foundations of Hindu Philosophy' by Theos Bernard, Ph.D. Author of 'Hatha Yoga', 'Penthouse of the Gods', 'Heaven Lies Within Us' etc. Philosophical Library, 1947 p. 68 'The Samkhyakarika of Isvarakrishna' Samkhyakarika, XVII trans. and ed. by Suryanarayana Sastri U. of Madras, 1935
