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Purusha is the Universal Principle that is eternal, indestructible, without form, and all-pervasive. It is Purusha in the form of nature’s laws and principles that operate in the background to regulate, guide, and direct change, evolution, cause, and effect. [3]
The Purusha Sukta, in the seventh verse, hints at the organic connectedness of the various classes of society. Purusha The Purusha is defined in verses 2 to 5 of the ...
Any designation of Purusha comes from Prakriti, and is a limitation. [7] Unlike Advaita Vedanta , and like Purva-Mīmāṃsā , Samkhya believes in plurality of the Puruṣas . [ 5 ] However, while being multiple, Puruṣas are considered non-different because their essential attributes are the same.
Mahavishnu (Sanskrit: महाविष्णु, romanized: Mahāviṣṇu, lit. 'Great Vishnu') is an aspect of Vishnu, the principal deity in Vaishnavism.In his capacity as Mahavishnu, the deity is known as the Supreme Purusha, the absolute protector and sustainer of the universe, the one who is beyond human comprehension, and all attributes.
Puruṣārtha (पुरुषार्थ) is a composite Sanskrit word from Purusha (पुरुष) and Artha (अर्थ). Purusha means "spirit" [citation needed], "immaterial essence" [citation needed], or "primaeval human being as the soul and original source of the universe". [9], depending on the darsana, the school of thought.
Ardhanarishvara represents the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies of the universe (Purusha and Prakriti) and illustrates how Shakti, the female principle of God, is inseparable from (or the same as, according to some interpretations) Shiva, the male principle of God, and vice versa. The union of these principles is exalted as the root ...
The Purusha is the centre of consciousness, whereas the Prakrti is the source of all material existence. The twenty-five tattva system of Samkhya concerns itself only with the tangible aspect of creation, theorizing that Prakrti is the source of the world of becoming.
Purusha, related to all gross beings as their self, is called vaiśvānara because he leads all (vishva) men (nara); vaiśvānara is the self, the individual-cosmos-divinity triunity, the self revealed in the waking state.