摘要：The author of this paper discusses three major points: (1) a significant feature of linguistic analysis in the classical Indian philosophical tradition; (2) the role of the religious practice (ī.vara-pranidhāna) in the search for true self-identity in Sā.khya and Yoga schools (dar.ana- s) with special reference to their gnoseological purposes; and (3) some possible readings of “aha.kāra” and “asmitā” displayed in the context of Sā.khya-Yoga phenomenology and metaphysics. The collision of language and metaphysics refers to the risk of paralogism caused be the common linguistic procedures making the subject define its identity within the semantic order (that is verbal conventions and grammatical rules) which do not reflect the actual metaphysical situation of the self, though it determines one’s self-understanding in the empirical sense. Whereas Sā.khya-Yoga aims at recognizing, reorganizing and, finally, going beyond these procedures regarded as the obstacles on the path towards selfknowledge and liberation from metaphysical ignorance.e what
