Consider the following statements with respect to Samkhya, mark the incorrect statement :
The state of kevala implies non-distinction of prakrti and purusa
All experience is full of sorrow - correct for Samkhya. The Samkhya-karika opens with the threefold suffering (adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika); to the discriminating person all worldly experience is duhkha.
The suffering will continue as long as the citta and purusa are associated - correct. Bondage is the purusa's false identification with the products of prakrti (buddhi or citta); while this samyoga lasts, suffering continues.
In the state of kevala, all samskara and avidya are uprooted - correct. Kaivalya (isolation) follows when discriminative knowledge burns away avidya and its latent impressions, so no further karma bears fruit.
The state of kevala implies non-distinction of prakrti and purusa - incorrect. Kaivalya is attained precisely through viveka-khyati, the discriminative knowledge of the distinction between prakrti and purusa; non-distinction (aviveka) is the cause of bondage, not of liberation.
Hence, the incorrect statement is that the state of kevala implies non-distinction of prakrti and purusa.
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