In this episode I am speaking with Dr. Karen O'Brien-Kop. Karen is Lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics at the University of Roehampton. She was formerly Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London. Her doctoral research at SOAS was on the intertextuality of Pātañjala yoga and Buddhist yoga in the classical era. She was a co-founder of the Sanskrit Reading Room and is a committee member of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies. 

You can hear Karen’s excellent 4 hour audio course The Philosophy of the Yoga Sutra at wisestudies.com

In this conversation we discuss the concepts Purusha and Prakriti found in Samkhya philosophy in the Indian tradition.