From Prakriti to Divinity
Sannyasi Anandaprem (Bombay)
I belong to a sampradaya called 'swayamacharian' in the Vaishnava tradition.
Prakriti:Your Ayurvedic Constitution
by Dr. Robert Svoboda
An excellent introduction, by the only westerner ever to get a Indian degree in Ayurveda. Plenty of practical lifestyle and nutrition advice. A most useful book ...
Prakriti ("creatrix"): nature, which is multilevel and, according to Patanjali's yoga-darshana, consists of an eternal dimension (called pradhana or "foundation"), levels of subtle existence (called sukshma-parvan ), ...
Prakriti
Primordial substance. The stuff out of which both mind and matter have been evolved.
Pramada ...
Prakriti: the material nature (a p â r a -) with the living beings (see 11.2: 47 and p a r â p r a k r i t i).
Prâkritimsvam: K r i s h n a's term for His own transcendental form.
Prakriti (nature or type of karma) - According to Jain texts, there are eight main types of karma which categorized into the 'harming' and the 'non-harming'; each divided into four types.
Prakriti - Primordial Nature, which in association with Purusha, creates the universe.
Prana - The vital breadth, which sustains life in a physical body; the primal energy or force, of which other physical forces are manifestations.
Prakriti is called Mahat from which Ahankara emanated firstly and this has three attributes called Trigunas. These are Satva (good , light, fluorescence, white, etc.), Rajas (Active and Red) and Tamas (ignorance and black).
Prakriti see prakrti
prakrta brought forward.
Prakrta (Prakrit) [a name given to any of the popular dialects derived from or otherwise cognate with Sanskrit] ...
The Prakriti is said to be the cause of production of physical body and organs (of perception and action). The Purusha (or the consciousness) is said to be the cause of experiencing pleasures and pains. (13.20) ...
The Prakriti or nature, under My supervision, creates all animate and inanimate objects; and thus the creation keeps on going, O Arjuna. (See also 14.03) (9.10) ...
The great saint Patanjali believed that each individual is a composite of matter(prakriti) and spirit(Purusha). He understood the process of yoga to bring about their separation. Thereby restoring the spirit in its absolute purity.
Here the three coils of which the Kundalini Yoga speaks are the three Gunas and the three and a half coil are the Prakriti and its three Gunas, together with the Vikritis. Her 50 coils are the letters of the Alphabet.
Both these are Prakriti and Purusha acting in two different ways. Objects are a form of Prakriti, the ego is a form of Purusha. The ego is not Purusha and the objects are not Prakriti. Yet they have some connection with these two respectively.
RAJAS: One of the three qualities of Prakriti which generates passion and restlessness.
RAJA-YOGA: A system of Yoga generally taken to be the one propounded by Patanjali Maharishi, i.e., Ashtanga Yoga.
Then the prakriti of the body that means the internal processes of the body are thought of. Here, the processes of rasa, rakta, med, majja and shukra are considered.
There is some link with Prakriti or matter. Savikalpa Samadhi cannot give the final emancipation. This is also an obstacle to Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The aspirant gets false contentment and stops his meditation or Sadhana.
In the philosophy of Yoga, all matter in the universe arises from the fundamental substrate called Prakriti.
If the subjective principle (prakriti or shakti) looking up and out of the body is overly dominant (rare today), then the world seems large and time has no meaning.
In the same way, chitshakti has been divided in two: divided into God and His nature, into Purusha and Prakriti, as though they were also two different entities. But the division is totally arbitrary.
 See also: Yoga, Spirit, Mind, Body, Spiritual
|
