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...

Middle Vedic texts, the mahant-puruṣa, or "vast person," represents an older concept, contrasting with the minuscule puruṣa within humans, often symbolized...

kaivalya, discernment of Puruṣa, the witness-conscious, as separate from Prakṛti, the cognitive apparatus, and disentanglement of Puruṣa from its muddled defilements...

Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Jala, Pruthvi. Prakriti, in this school, contrasts with Puruṣa, which is pure awareness and metaphysical consciousness. The term is also...

similarities between the jiva and the puruṣa of Samkhya-Yoga. The most visible similarity is that both the jiva and puruṣa are part of a dualism. Just like...

annamaya puruṣa - physical prāṇamaya puruṣa - nervous / vital manomaya puruṣa - mental / mind vijñānamaya puruṣa - knowledge and truth ānandamaya puruṣa - Aurobindo's...

puruṣa, according to the 10th century Saurapurāṇa: one of the various Upapurāṇas depicting Śaivism.—[...] From the disturbed prakṛti and the puruṣa sprang...

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...

ambulatory for the devotee to walk around and ritually circumambulate the Purusa (Brahman), the universal essence. Traditionally the life of a Hindu is divided...

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...

puruṣa, according to the 10th century Saurapurāṇa: one of the various Upapurāṇas depicting Śaivism.—[...] From the disturbed prakṛti and the puruṣa sprang...

"vṛddhir·ād·aiC" – Pāṇini I 1 vacana puruṣa prayoga artha kāla eka·vacana dvi·vacana bahu·vacana prathama·puruṣa dvitīya·puruṣa tṛtīya·puruṣa kartari·prayoga karmaṇi·prayoga...

Sharma. Delhi, Varanasi 2005, pp. 127–136. Patnaik, Tandra (2005). Śūnya Puruṣa: Bauddha Vaiṣṇavism of Orissa. DK Printworld. ISBN 978-81-246-0345-1. Patra...

of puruṣa from prakirti, and is achieved through meditation, stilling one's thought waves (citta vritti) and resting in pure awareness of puruṣa. Unlike...

"the means of achieving discriminative discernment," the "uncoupling of puruṣa from all connection with prakṛti and all involvement with the citta." Bryant...

principles, Puruṣa and Prākṛti, and creation is only a manifestation or evolution of the constituents of Prākṛti due to the action of Puruṣa's Consciousness...

and moksha) see: Hopkins, p. 78. For definition of the term पुरुष-अर्थ (puruṣa-artha) as "any of the four principal objects of human life, i.e. धर्म, अर्थ...

anything called "Ātman/soul/self". In Samkhya, the oldest school of Hinduism, Puruṣa, the witness-consciousness, is Atman. It is absolute, independent, free...

Prakṛti and Puruṣa is not instigated by another being. For the author, Īśvara doesn't exist outside of the dualism of Prakṛti and Puruṣa. Being pure consciousness...

(beside ariya) guru (master) → garu (adj.) (beside guru (n.)) puruṣa (man) → purisa (not purusa) vṛkṣa (tree) → rukṣa → rukkha (not vukkha) Emperor Ashoka...

universe. For instance, in the Purusha sukta of the Rigveda, Purusha (Sanskrit puruṣa, पुरुष "man," or "Cosmic Man") is sacrificed by the devas from the foundation...

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...

Manu, the son of the demigod Chakshu. He had many sons, headed by Puru, Purusa, and Sudyumna. During the reign of Chakshusa Manu, the King of heaven was...

Rudram and Purushasuktam,, Ramakrishna Mission, Chennai. Patrice Lajoye, "Puruṣa", Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée / New Comparative Mythologie, 1, 2013:...

(Sanskrit: ईश्वर) in verse 24 of Book 1, as "a special Self (पुरुषविशेष, puruṣa-viśeṣa)", Sanskrit: क्लेश कर्म विपाकाशयैरपरामृष्टः पुरुषविशेष ईश्वरः ॥२४॥...

put, puts kriyā vacana puruṣa prayoga artha kāla eka·vacana dvi·vacana bahu·vacana prathama·puruṣa dvitīya·puruṣa tṛtīya·puruṣa kartari·prayoga karmaṇi·prayoga...

Mahabharata 12.219. This school accepted only twenty-four principles. It included purusa within the avyakta prakrti. It had no theory of the gunas, and the ultimate...

phrases like "consciousness is the essence of purusa" imply a distinction that does not exist in reality, purusa and consciousness are not separate entities...

referred to as kaivalya. In this school, kaivalya means the realization of purusa, the principle of consciousness, as independent from mind and body, as different...