In their (mere) union there is no motive for creation." Accordingly, the result of knowledge is to put an end to creation, and to leave the Soul emancipated from desire, from change, from the material body, in a state which is Being, but not Existence (_esse,_ not _existere_; Seyn, not Da-seyn).
This Sankhya philosophy becomes of great importance, when we consider that it was the undoubted source of Buddhism.

This doctrine which we have been describing was the basis of Buddhism.[69] M.Cousin has called it the sensualism of India,[70] but certainly without propriety.

It is as purely ideal a doctrine as that of the Vedas.

Its two eternal principles are both ideal.

The plastic force which is one of them, Kapila distinctly declares cannot be perceived by the senses.[71] Soul, the other eternal and uncreated principle, who "is witness, solitary, bystander, spectator, and passive,"[72] is not only spiritual itself, but is clothed with a spiritual body, within the material body.