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- Purusha (Sanskrit: पुरुष, [pʊɾʊʂᵊ], IAST: Puruṣa) is a complex concept whose meaning evolved in Vedic and Upanishadic times. Depending on source and historical...
- independent principles, Puruṣa ('consciousness' or spirit) and Prakṛti (nature or matter, including the human mind and emotions). Puruṣa is the witness-consciousness...
- kaivalya, discernment of Puruṣa, the witness-conscious, as separate from Prakṛti, the cognitive apparatus, and disentanglement of Puruṣa from its muddled defilements...
- Whereas the purusa (spirit, or true self) of the yogin is bound to the prakriti – the material body subject to karmas and kleshas, the special purusa called...
- 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...
- 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...
- Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Jala, Pruthvi. Prakriti, in this school, contrasts with Puruṣa, which is pure awareness and metaphysical consciousness. The term is also...
- five handfuls of their hair at initiation. Śvetāmbara text Trisasti-salaka-purusa-caritra mentions Rishabhanatha tore only four handfuls of his hair. Just...
- cherished under Hinduism. It is a link between man, deities, and the Universal Puruṣa in a sacred space. It represents the triple-knowledge (trayi-vidya) of the...
- ambulatory for the devotee to walk around and ritually cir****ambulate the Purusa (Brahman), the universal essence. Traditionally the life of a Hindu is divided...