Puruṣa
idea · 7 works · 11 mentions · 30 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Puruṣa the figure
puruṣa · the Self · father · jīva · kṣetrajña · puruṣas · revered puruṣa · the Person · the embodied one · the holy puruṣa
in the texts
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The Self/spirit-principle of Sāṃkhya, whose existence, otherness from prakṛti, non-agency, and plurality are argued through the ten radical topics.
the puruṣas] are remembered as many.
] From the inversion [of agency onto prakṛti follows] the non-agency [of puruṣa];
From the [composite's] being-for-another's-sake, the existence of {{puruṣa|the Self}} is established [as] the cause of the difference of transformation.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Cosmic Person, invoked as a riddle subject alongside Death.
I ask thee directly of the Puruṣa — how many are the limbs of Death?
Where immortality and death and the Person are gathered together;
Those who know the sacred power in the Person, they truly know the Pillar.
Paramārthasāra
The conscious principle, contrasted throughout with insentient prakṛti, whose apparent bondage and eventual discrimination from prakṛti constitutes liberation.
thus he [also] himself apprehends the Person ({{puruṣa|the conscious self}}), the Self, hidden in the cave [of the heart].
As the vault of the sky is not [really] soiled by [passing] clouds or by risings of smoke, so the supreme {{puruṣa|conscious self}} is untouched by the modifications of {{prakṛti / mūlaprakṛti|nature}}.
For the deluded mind, swooned [into identity] by the I-sense (ahaṃkāra) and [yet] awakened by consciousness, there arises here the conceit 'I am the person ({{puruṣa|the conscious self}})' and the experiencing of pleasure and pain.
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The conscious, inactive self/knower of Sāṃkhya metaphysics, ontologically distinct from prakṛti and its products.
puruṣa (the self) is neither cause nor effect.
"I have seen [her]" — so [thinks] the one [self], indifferent;
and because activity tends toward kaivalya (isolation) — [therefore] the puruṣa (self) exists.
Gaṇapatitattva
The doctrinal concept of the Puruṣa (person/spirit), whose threefold states and liberation are analyzed at length.
They are the three Śivas, the three Puruṣas.
the three states of the Puruṣa are remembered.
> It is the three-fold Śiva, the three-fold Puruṣa;
San Hyan Mahajnana
Puruṣa, pure consciousness/spirit, the metaphysical counterpart to prakṛti, repeatedly correlated with the sun, the father, and the charioteer, and depicted as bound in saṃsāra yet ultimately real.
*Puruṣa* is the charioteer.
] in the midst of puruṣa [.
The revered *puruṣa* is called the sun.
Slokantara
A Sāṃkhya cosmological principle (the self/spirit), figured as the ox pulling the cart of time and deeds
puruṣa is like an ox.
Hold fast to righteous *dharma*, so that you may return to the state of a god once more.
for this reason, the holy *puruṣa* has the ox as its embodiment, ordered by the Lord to pull the cart, which carries the good and bad deeds of humanity.