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    puruṣa

    Devanāgarī: पुरुषा Translation: animating principle, self, consciousness, spirit; a person, man, a human being; people Similar words:ātman, cetanā, cit, dṛś, draṣṭṛ Opposite words:prakṛti, citta, ahaṃkāra, guṇa, dṛśya Related concepts:īśvara, puruṣottama, jīva, asmitā, avidyā

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 1: 16 , 24
    Chapter 3: 35 , 49 , 55
    Chapter 4: 18 , 34

    Sāṃkhya Kārikā:

    21 , 59 , 3 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 31 , 36 , 37 , 42 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 61 , 63 , 65 , 69

    Bhagavad Gītā:

    Chapter 8: 8
    Chapter 13: 21

    Gītārtha Saṃgraha:

    4


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    Commentaries around

    “In the Yoga state we experience what is beyond the mind.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

    “Yoga is about cultivating a profound discernment
    of the difference between
    the Nature of our Being and
    the Being of our Nature.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verses 12-16

    “Yoga is about recognising change and
    recognising that which recognises change.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 16

    “We can experience an absence of
    thirst for the ephemeral Guṇa
    when the recognition of the
    eternal Puruṣa pulls us more.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 16

    “Citta and Puruṣa are distinct.
    They are in association like heat and water.
    Water which is cold becomes
    warm in association with heat.
    Then we use the term hot water.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 6

    “Similarly, because of the proximity of Citta and Puruṣa,
    what is the quality of one is taken to be of the other.
    In our convention they are often taken as one
    and not two distinct entities with different natures.
    This state is Asmitā.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 6

    “The witness cannot be witnessed.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 18

    “‘Who’ is it that identifies
    that we misidentify?”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 18

    “What is it that:
    Earth does not cover?
    Water does not wet?
    Fire does not burn?
    Air does not erode?”
    – Paul Harvey on Bhagavad Gītā Chapter Two verse 23

    “When the mind thinks it is seeing rather than the Puruṣa
    there is Avidyā, and this is the beginning of Duḥkha.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Six Page 85

    “There is no death for the Puruṣa
    because there is no change for it,
    and what is death but change.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Six Page 87

    “Prāṇa is simply the expression of Puruṣa in all parts of the body and beyond.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Ten Page 135

    “Prāṇa is simply the expression of Puruṣa in all parts of the body and beyond.
    This Prāṇa has an intimate relationship to the mind
    because the Puruṣa sees only through the mind.
    Thus Prāṇa, mind and breath are interrelated.
    Whatever happens in the mind influences the breath.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Ten Page 135

    “There is a relationship between Pariṇāma, Tāpa and Saṃskāra.
    When you recognise this phenomena there is something that recognises it.
    That something is not part of the phenomena.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Sāṃkhya and Yoga

    “Yoga is when the mind is completely absorbed in the great force within.”
    – TKV Desikachar France August 1983

    “In meditation,
    one must make the transition
    from the gross, that which has form
    and which can be seen by the mind,
    to the subtle, the formless.”
    – TKV Desikachar Madras December 19th 1988

    “In each one of us there is something that experiences.”
    – TKV Desikachar introducing the Taittirīya Upaniṣad 2001

    “If the Saṅga is at the Puruṣa level it will stay;
    if it is at the Prakṛti level it will change.”
    – TKV Desikachar speaking with his senior Western students London 1998

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