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Purusa (Sanskrit, "man," "person") is a spiritual concept in Hindu religion and philosophy. The earliest references in Atharva Veda and Kathaka-Samhita may, according to J. W.
His spiritual preceptor Svami Hariharananda, was well known to be a saint who had attained to perfection (Siddha-purusa). He endeavored to establish the Mahanirvana Tantra as the Scripture of the Brahmo-Samaj.
Not the unborn Self or Atman, for the Self even in presiding over the existence of the individual is aware always of its universality and transcendence, it is yet its deputy in the forms of Nature, the individual soul, caitya purusa, supporting mind, ...
Without doubt, the physical and electrical worlds mingle and affect each other; in the words of Mehta "the interaction of prakrti and purusa results in creation." ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Spiritual, Ritual, Yoga
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