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Purusha (Sanskrit: पुरुष, IAST:
Puruṣa) is a
complex concept whose meaning evolved in
Vedic and
Upanishadic times.
Depending on
source and
historical timeline...
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independent principles,
Puruṣa ('consciousness' or spirit) and Prakṛti (nature or matter,
including the
human mind and emotions).
Puruṣa is the witness-consciousness...
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traditionally called Utkaliya Vaishnavism,
which sees God as the "Sunya
Purusa" and the
nature of the soul as
being able to
merge into the Absolute. Some...
- Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Jala, Pruthvi. Prakriti, in this school,
contrasts with
Puruṣa,
which is pure
awareness and
metaphysical consciousness. The term is also...
- kaivalya,
discernment of
Puruṣa, the witness-conscious, as
separate from Prakṛti, the
cognitive apparatus, and
disentanglement of
Puruṣa from its
muddled defilements...
- of two realities:
Puruṣa (witness-consciousness) and Prakṛti (nature). Jiva (a
living being) is
considered as a
state in
which puruṣa is
bonded to Prakṛti...
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annamaya puruṣa -
physical prāṇamaya
puruṣa -
nervous /
vital manomaya puruṣa -
mental / mind vijñānamaya
puruṣa -
knowledge and
truth ānandamaya
puruṣa - Aurobindo's...
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Sutras adopt the "reflective discernment" (adhyavasaya) of
prakrti and
purusa (dualism), its
metaphysical rationalism, and its
three epistemic methods...
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puruṣa,
according to the 10th
century Saurapurāṇa: one of the
various Upapurāṇas
depicting Śaivism.—[...] From the
disturbed prakṛti and the
puruṣa sprang...
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Middle Vedic texts, the mahant-
puruṣa, or "vast person,"
represents an
older concept,
contrasting with the
minuscule puruṣa within humans,
often symbolized...
