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We hear two terms very often used by pandits: prakrti and purusa .

Please explain these two terms?

 

Prakti and purusa are matter and energy. You can also take them as

the positive and the negative. Even if there is a bulb, you don't get

light unless there is power supply. Likewise, the power supply

remains useless, if there is no bulb either. Therefore, both power

and light bulb are required. Similarly, this entire creation is a

combination of prakrti and purusa . These two are interdependent and

interrelated.

 

Prakrti is viewed as feminine. God is the only male.

 

In a College for Women, girls play all the different roles in a

drama. So also, at the level of the body, there are differences. But,

the indweller, atma, is one and the same. The body is a bundle of

bones. It is like a water bubble, it is ephemeral. It is afflicted by

many diseases. After all, it is full of urine, blood, muscles, bones

and faecal matter. It emits only bad odour and not the fragrance of

flowers and perfumes. The body is prakrti and undergoes change

periodically. But, the eternal, changeless, immortal truth is purusa

or God. It is only the purusa that is valued. Prakrti is accepted and

cherished so long as purusa is there.

 

Sugar mixed with cream of wheat makes a sweet by name ravva laddu.

Sugar in combination with dal makes a laddu. The same sugar can be

mixed with any type of flour pi s t á di gudasampar ká t . Similarly,

purusa functions through prakrti assuming different forms and names.

But, purusa remains a witness, who is transcendental, beyond time and

space; nondual, eternal, blissful and is a personification of wisdom.

It is purusa, who created prakrti the universe. Purusa is the object

while prakrti is his reflection. Therefore, these twin terms are used

by Sanskrit scholars to indicate purusa and prakrti: loka -

lókésvara, vis'va - vis'vésvara, jagat - jagad i s'vara , sarvam -

sarvé svara, prapanca - paramv é svara , etc. Supposing there

arecontainers made of gold, silver, copper and clay and they are

filled with water. Although the containers differ in metal and value,

the reflection of the sun in all these containers is one and the

same. So, the sun is purusa while the containers represent prakrti .

Matter + Energy = God.