Purushartha
purpose of the consciousness, of man's existence- the four basic needs or desires, arth, kaama, dharma, moksha.
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PurushArtha: The goal to be attained i.e. moksha or liberation from bondage.
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Purusharthas
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four efforts which man must make in order to fulfill his individual existence: (i) artha (wealth), (ii) kama (love), (iii) dharma (duty), (iv) moksha (liberation) ...
Purusha
Pure Consciousness,\"One who sleeps in the city of life\" \"That which fills all, that which dwells in the body (puranatvat)\", The cosmic Self.
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Purusha ("male"): the transcendental Self (atman) or Spirit, a designation that is mostly used in Samkhya and Patanjali's yoga-darshana.
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Radha : the God-man Krishna 's spouse; a name of the divine Mother.
Purusha: the male principle; the Absolute Truth in its original form (m a h â p u r u s h a). The lord as the p u r u s h a assumed the original form of the material world with her sixteen principles of material action (S.B. 1.
Purusha spent some days thinking of how he could stop the vrittis from influencing him, but he found it hard to find an answer.
Purusha
Purusakara
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Om - According to the Vedas, the most sacred of all words, out of which emanated the universe. The symbol of both the personal God and the Brahman or Absolute.
Purusha is the consciousness that observes, witnesses, watches, and supervises Prakrti. It is the spiritual energy or the efficient cause of the universe.
Purusha etc see purusa etc.
purva in front; east.
purva-mimamsa (Purva Mimansa) [a system of philosophy (one of the six darsanas), the enquiry into the first or mantra portion of the Veda; it is concerned chiefly with Vedic ritual]; the vedavada.
The Purusha-Sukta proclaims that all this Universe is God as the Supreme Person - the Purusha with thousands of heads, thousands of eyes, thousands of limbs in His Cosmic Body. He envelops the whole cosmos and transcends it to infinity.
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.
He then thinks that the black "man of sin" (Papapurusha) in the left cavity of the abdomen is being dried up, and so thinking, he exhales through the right nostril Pingala, making Japa of the Bija thirty-two times.
Patanjali believed that separation of the matter (prakriti) and spirit (purusha) were necessary to cleanse the spirit to absolute purity.
When this "situation" is occurring in asana practice, we can call it a manifestation of Purusha or pure consciousness. This is because purusha as being pure witness consciousness has contained in it the essence of intelligence. purusha is its source.
MAHAPURUSHA: A great soul.
MAHARISHI: Great sage
MAHASAMADHI: The departure of a Self-realized saint from his mortal coil.
MAHATMA: Great soul
MAITRI: Friendship.
MANAS: Mind.
MANONASA: Destruction of mind.
In addition, Purusha represents the soul or cosmic essence, Prakruti the primordial nature, and ego evolving out of their interaction much later.
Likewise, trying to look within and find your own true Self, your soul, the purusha, is impossible when the mind is agitated. All you see are the waves that stand in the way of finding your inner self.
That means the basics of all the four purusharthas is in health. If there is no health the purshartha cannot be achieved. All experience this. But even if all know and understand this, no one considers maintaining the health of the body.
ARTHA - 1. object, purpose, aim (see also "purushartha"); 2. wealth, money
ASANA - 1. a seat, stool; 2. posture, position of the body, third limb of Raja Yoga
ASHIRVAD - blessing, benediction
- ASHIRVAD MUDRA - the gesture of blessing ...
Amrita ("immortal/immortality"): a designation of the deathless Spirit (atman, purusha); ...
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.
Dharma (general duty), Visesha Dharma (special duty), Varnashrama Dharma (duties of Caste and Order), Svadharma (one's own duty), Yuga Dharma (duty of the age or period in history), Kula Dharma (duty of family), Manava Dharma (duty of man), Purusha ...
Never underrate yourself. Virat Purusha resides in you. He is a fountain of great power. The ocean of joy is rising in big waves. You have in you a fountain of enthusiasm. Manifest it by meditation and be fearless.
When you finally are united with God, your Soul becomes perfect and strong, ready to have sight of God. The Soul retains imperfections for as long as you the self is still seeking any of the four aims of life [" purusharta"].
 See also: Mind, Yoga, Body, Spirit, Spiritual
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