PRAKRITI AND PURUSHA
Hindu philosophy considers
that that there are two eternal causal principles behind the creation of this
universe. The unconscious and the conscious causes.
By Universal Concept ---The
unconscious cause is the Prakriti or Universal Law works on three qualities
satwa, rajo, tamo gunas, the conscious cause is the Purusha or Creative
consciousness. Both these principles are neither created nor destroyed. Seated
in Prakriti, Purusha creates which means the creative consciousness of universe
utilizes the universal laws to perform creations which are moving or immovable.
Universal Purushan which is Brahman is the causal energy, Prakriti is the
subtle energy, and Manifested universe is the Gross energy.
By Personal Concept ---.A
Person has body, mind and spirit which is Gross, Subtle, and Causal created
with different combinations of gunas. At physical levels Body and Mind
constitute Prakriti (Gross, subtle) and Causal nature is Purusha .The one who
realize when you are in wake, dream,
deep sleep state is atman.
Prakriti has two forms,
Avyakta or unmanifested and Vyakta or manifest.
Avyakta is composed of three
Gunas or qualities, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. They are the building blocks of
this nature and referred as Karan
Prakriti or causal nature. You are composed of these five sheaths or koshas,
but you are not that. These five koshas belong to the lower existence, not to
the range of supreme knowledge. They are controlled by the three gunas: sattwa,
rajas and tamas. Guna means quality, faculty or attribute. The three gunas
belong to nature. In philosophy nature means prakriti, the universal law. There
is a universal law which controls all, from biggest to tiniest, and it is
inherent in the thing itself. Take a tree, for example. It is controlled by the
laws inherent in the tree. In the same way every human being and every animal
is controlled by a law which is inherent in it. My controller is inherent in me
and that is the law. That is prakriti, and it controls, maintains or manages
each and every law by the three gunas.
These three gunas again
control the five koshas. The three gunas work in unison. Nothing is controlled
by one guna. The body is controlled by tamoguna, but there is also a little bit
of rajas and sattwa. In the same way, anandamaya kosha is controlled by sattwa
guna, but there is a trace of the other two gunas. The mind is controlled by
rajoguna, but there is a trace of the other two gunas. The three gunas control
the five koshas in cooperation with each other. They all have a share. In one
kosha, one guna may have a major share and in the others a very minor share,
but the proportion changes from time to time.
Nothing can be created or
destroyed. Everything that appears or created are actually evolution (Parinama)
of cause into effect .This effect is called the Sukshma Prakriti or Subtle
nature. Our real existence is in the sukshma prakriti as Sukshma sharira or
subtle body. It is a functional perception unit. It is composed of four
antahkarana and ten indriyas.
1. Annamaya kosham (Physical
Body) - It can be Satwic which means harmony, balance and tranquility, where
you create a balance between activity and peace. Rajas means dynamic, active,
violent. Tamas means dull and inert. Electrons are bouncing inside an atom at
very low speeds, the electron may be captured into a high orbital, making the
atom into a negative ion, at higher speeds, and the electron will bounce off
the atom. And at very high speeds, the electron will rip the atom apart. The
sattwic body creates a longer bouncing, a tamasic body perhaps no bouncing at
all, while a rajasic body has a bouncing but it has no limitation. During
electron movement inside atom it will emit an energy field similarly sattwic,
tamasic, rajasic bodies emit fields of energy depending upon annamayakosham. To
the human body, the movement of electrons and electrically charged particles
are essential for even the most basic cellular processes. Every single physiological process in the
human body is mediated by electrical force.
DNA replication, movement of essential vitamins and minerals in and out
of cells, muscle contraction, and nervous system signals all require electric
force to make them happen. Annamayakosha has ten Indriyas which are divided
into two functions. There are five “entrance senses” (jnanendriyas) that feed
our mind with information of the exterior world: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue
and skin. There are five “exit senses” or sense actions (karmendriyas) that
function as our means of outward expression: mouth/speaking, hands/grasping,
feet/walking, genitals/procreating, and rectum/excreting.
2. Pranamayakosham --It’s the
Prana that keeps our life activities on action which is further divided in to
five. Pranamaya kosha is the energy in annamaya kosha. In this physical body you have a field of
prana. It is the subtle form of energy and can be measured. Karma means action. With five karmendriyas
you perform five gross actions and Prana is the force behind them. Pranayama
uniforms the pranic energy profile throughout the body. Prana is the positive
field of energy. Prana is divided in to four
Pranan--Intrepet and control five indriyas
of entrance senses.
Apanan - Control five exit senses.
Vyanan- Digestion
Samanan -Circulates the energy produced in
digestion to rest of body.
Udanan - Self Development
3. Manomayakosham /Mind- The literal meaning of
manas is ‘that by which you cognize, perceive and understand’. Perception,
cognition and understanding are the basic and primary qualities of the mind.
Now this mind can be brought closer, that is to say, time, space and causality
can be brought closer. When we are on the external conscious plane, the
distance between time, space and causality is long and when you are in
meditation, then the gap between time, space and causality is very short. In
fact, if the mind can sometimes stop, time stops. The literal meaning of manas
is ‘that by which you cognize, perceive and understand’. Perception, cognition
and understanding are the basic and primary qualities of the mind. Mind is a
part of Cosmic Mind
4. Vignanamayakosham
/Intellect –Vijnanamaya kosha is related to a very unknown part of the universe
and it is a link or sutra between the conscious mind, the individual mind and
the universal mind. Universal knowledge comes to the conscious mind through
vijnanamaya kosha or the psychic mind. Vijnanamaya kosha does not depend on
time, space and causation factors. Whenever you have any experience which is
subjective in nature, it is a consequence of vijnanamaya kosha. Whatever you
are dreaming is a projection of vijnanamaya kosha. When you see lights and
flowers, figures, angels or saints, smell perfumes or hear sounds, it is the
consequence or result of vijnanamaya kosha.
5. Anandamayakosham – The fifth organism is anandamaya kosha. It
is not possible to translate the word ananda. Some translate it as bliss or
happiness, but ananda is when there is no happiness and no unhappiness. In
happiness you are jumping, in unhappiness you are dull – sometimes low,
sometimes high. So your mind is swinging. In ananda there is no swinging. There
is unified experience and that experience does not change. When your mind has
become steady in experience and does not fluctuate under any condition that is
ananda. So we call it homogenous experience.
Annamayakosham and Pranamayakosham
collectively called Gross body
Manomayakosham and Vignanakosham collectively
called Subtle body
Anandamayakosham - Causal body
Subtle body can be divided in
to Antakaranas which are
MANAS - Mind
----Doubtful thoughts comes like waves
BUDDHI - Intellect ----Confident thoughts seems like still water
AHAMKĀRA - Ego ----Doubt and
confidence is subjective and that subjective entity is Individual.
CHITTA - Consciousness--- Drive force (drive
force of computer intelligence is electricity, (Universal consciousness trapped
by prakriti).
Chitananda the all-pervading drive energy
which is unconditional, without cause and effect, without any attributes,
literally it represents "Nothingness" is the source for Chitt.
“Consciousness sleep in
minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals and become self-aware in
humans.”
Explained
below is the Process in which Param Purusha, with the intention of creation
using universal laws called Prakriti manifests to produce movable and immovable
beings.
1) Cosmic Intelligence perceives
Chit Akasham based on the samskara /evolution rules(prakriti) and will
interpret to form distorted perception of self-called Ahamkara.
2) Thus Param purusha is the
cause and its evolution rules prakriti with the help of satwa, rajo and tamo
gunas creates the subtle nature which is the Buddhi, ahankara, Mind, Chit.
3) Purusha the causal nature
creates causal body which is Anandamayakosha , everlasting ananda by nature.
4) Prakriti or evolution rules
shape the subtle body which is vignanamayakosha and manomayakosha which has the
chit (part of cosmic intelligence) trapped inside manas,buddhi and
ahankara(ego).
5)
Subtle nature contains samskaras which are deep rooted patterns
of thinking that is created in the field of movement and time or experiences
during the field of action, these samskaras denotes desire or attachment and
the ways to acheive it.
6)
Subtle body has mind which help us to cognize and perceive, due to stacked samskaras mind will lose its
original understanding which in turn creates doubts.
7) Subtle body has buddhi or
intelligence which will create false perception due to this corrupted mind.
8) This false perception blocks
our real understanding about the trapped chit in our subtle body and it will
now identify the trapped chit to our gross bodies.
9) During wake up chit is
identified with material so it is Viswan.
10)
During dream chit is identified with energy so it is Taijasan.
11)During deep sleep which last for few seconds
chit is identified with chit so it is praajna.
12)
Every karma is followed by desires, which is created from the
benefits of its results Desires can be suppressed if results of karma is shared
for the benefit of others or performed selflessly. With full focus and
attention, it brings fulfillment and freedom. When you make service your sole
purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.
13)
Using Bhakti, we surrender our attachment towards desires
(emotions) resulting from karma to god without expecting any response, thereby
restraining our mind from any desires.
Devotion is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to
pleasantness; devotion is another dimension of intelligence. Intellect wants to
conquer the truth. Devotion just embraces the truth
14)
Using Knowledge we can use the powers of the mind to discriminate
between the real and the unreal, the permanent and the transitory. What is it
that prevents us from knowing our real nature and the nature of the world
around us? The covering of maya. Jnana yoga is the process of directly tearing
that veil.
15) IF we break any one of this
wall the rest will also break releasing the chit to chit akasham and the cycle
will end forever.
2. Chit = Part of Purusha with
Creative Consciousness.
3. Anandamayakosham is created with
influence of Causal nature, and this state is called Turiya.
4. Vignanamayakosham and
Manomayakosham is created by the influence of effects or subtle nature this
state is called Swapna.
5. Pranamayakosham and
Annamayakosham are created by the influence of the perceiver who experiences
the manifested reality this state is Jagrat.
6. Three Gunas generated from the
distorted self-perception in presence of the drive force Chit creates the
Shariras which enables the perceiver to perceive the manifested reality created
by the Cosmic Intelligence Buddhi.
Unconscious Karan Prakriti creates
Sukshma prakriti which is then interpreted by buddhi, perceived as manas, which
forms the subjective experience which is felt during conscious state. The drive
force which is trapped inside the Jeevan is Chit (Consciousness).
When you Sleep ---- You feel Mind and
Intelligence only
When you Wake up --- You feel Mind,
Intelligence and body.
When you are in deep sleep -- You feel pure
intelligence
Then the you who feel the above
condition is Chit or Atman, which becomes free through jnana yoga, Bhakti yoga
or Karma yoga merges with Chit Akasham which is Brahman.
