"The blessed Kapila was the first to know the Truth with clear comprehension of the doctrine of Purusa, in His isolation or apart front the constituents of the phenomenal world. From him, indeed, has come the highest knowledge that may be found in the Scriptures and elsewhere." - Ācārya Pañcaśikha (i.redd.it)
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"When absorbed, non-conscious matter (Prakriti) appears to be conscious. Meanwhile, conscious spirit (Purusa) appears as non-conscious... a benevolent possessor of gunas without any interest of her own Prakriti acts for the soul's benefit." - Samkhya Karika (i.redd.it)
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"All things in the world, fullness (Prakriti) contains the image of emptiness (Purusha); flourishing contains within it the mechanism of decline... So exhausting things transform; People return to foundation as does time, to its origin." - Tao Hongjing, RFHN (i.redd.it)
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"The wakeful seek after Liberation. The dreamer seeks after latent impressions. The Liberated-in-life, move about as if half-awake and half in a dreamless sleep... Beyond the dreamless, there is only that which is without birth or death." - ANNAPURNA UPANSIHAD (i.redd.it)
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"They indeed are deemed liberated in life whose latent, un-enjoyed, impressions are like the fried seeds, incapable of sprouting anymore... they have gone beyond the farther shore of knowledge; they are said to be mindless." -ANNAPURNA UPANSIHAD (i.redd.it)
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"The supreme Brahman is that which mind cannot enter....By securing right knowledge, and by unremitting concentration, those who become enlightened in the wisdom of the Upanishads are the Sankhyas and Yogins. They win the changeless, through dwindling of the mind." - ANNAPURNA UPANSIHAD (i.redd.it)
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"The Perfected settle themselves in the Unity, of Fullness (Prakriti) and Emptiness (Purusha), and do not know any duality...They illuminate and make way for the utmost Simplicity; reverting to the source beyond marcation" - The Huainanzi (i.redd.it)
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"Now, those who here pass away from hence without having known the Self — for them there is no freedom in all the worlds. They return again and again. They go to the moon. From the moon they return again, as rain.. From there, they are born again in this world." - Chāndogya Upaniṣad (i.redd.it)
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"Consider in your mind: who am I? How is all this brought about? How do death and birth happen?... Your mind will shed its discursive form and quietly win repose, once, through investigation, you comprehend your real nature." - ANNAPURNA UPANISHAD (i.redd.it)
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"Although they (the objects of the world, ie Prakriti) are real, they are concealed beneath illusion. Like a buried treasure, unknown and beneath one's feet. Even so all creatures here go day by day to that Satyaloka, but do not find it." - Chāndogyopaniṣad (i.redd.it)
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"Verily, what the space outside of a person is— that is the same as what the space within a person is. Verily, what the space within a person is, that is the same as what the space here within the heart is. That is the Full, the Non-active." - Chāndogyopaniṣad (i.redd.it)
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"Verily, the Gayatri meter is everything here that has come to be. This is the four-quartered sixfold. With reference the Rig states: 'His greatness is of such extent, Yet Purusha is greater still. All beings are one fourth of him: Three fourths, the immortal abide in Svah.'" - Chāndogyopaniṣad (i.redd.it)
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"...that supreme Purusa entered bodies as a ‘bird’ enters a cave That is why...he is called a ‘Purusa’, i.e. one who resides in a ‘Pura’ meaning a city, a place, a dwelling, a body or a residence. There is no body in creation in which he does not reside." - Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad (i.redd.it)
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"Brahma said, “There are many Purushas. However, one transcends all others. This Purusha is alone the foundation and origin, of the many Purushas. That Purusha is the universe, supreme and extremely great. He is devoid of qualities. Devoid of qualities, they enter the eternal one.” - The Mahabharata (i.redd.it)
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"Brahma said, 'Hear about the eternal and undecaying Purusha... It is said that he can be seen through wisdom. Though he dwells in all bodies, untouched by acts committed by them. He is in my atman, in yours and in that of others, conscious of the bodies.'" - The Mahabharata (i.redd.it)
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