There is definitely one point where both streams-the Indian schools of darsana and the western philosophical mainstream—merge and almost have a consensus-and that is at the fine point of self-reflexivity. The Upanishads in their cryptic language of poetic condensation speak of two birds on a tree-one eats the fruit while the other watches. This could be the purusha and the prakrti, or it could also be the soul or the divine element in the living being ...
