APPLIED ASPECT OF PURUSHA SIDDHANTA

By Vaidya. Kaveri Hiremath

Dr. J.R.JoshiHOD of Moulik siddanta

Ayurveda maha vidyalaya.Hubli

Prakruti-Purusha

EVOLUTION OF UNIVERSE

IntroductionPurushaPrakriti

At the liberation of the last purusha from prakriti, prakriti will return to its primoridal state. Its manifold appearance depends on our ignorance that we basically belong to it. But with proper knowledge and discrimination one can use prakriti for one's liberation.

Purusha has no attributes except that "it is" and that "it knows." It has no intelligence (this is located in buddhi.) and it is without desire. It is pure freedom.

Originally, the three gunas (sattva, rajas, tamas) are in perfect equilibrium in prakriti. But under purusha's influence disequilibrium and evolution begin.

According to Sankya Darshana

Prakriti is the source of the world of "becoming" (change and motion) and sensation. Purusha represents true being: inactive, unchanging, and pure.

Sattvaguna is the "stuff" of consciousness and all higher mental states (associated with Hindu god Vishnu and the goddess Lakshmi);

Rajasguna is the source of activity, sensation, and emotion (associated with Brahma and the goddess Sarasvati); and Tamasguna is the source of resistance, inertia, and dissolution (associated with Shiva and the goddess Kali).

Purush: Supreme Self, Pure consciousness,

Inactive, Unchanging, A passive witness and

multiple.

Prakiti: Pure objectivity, phenomenal reality, Non-

conscious and one multiprakiti in equilibrium.

Both more transcendental

Nature of Duality:

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representation of objects of the external world with the data supplied by the senses. The ego contributes personal perspective to knowledge claims. The intellect contributes understanding to knowledge. The puruṣa adds consciousness to the result: it is the mere witness of the intellectual processes. The puruṣa is the lord of the house, the tripartite psyche is the door-keeper and the senses are the doors.

The relation of the unmanifest and manifest nature is somewhat vague the unmanifest was the initial state of Prakṛti, where the guṇa-s were in equilibrium. Due to the effect of the puruṣa-s this changed and evolved the manifold universe that we see, the manifest. This view nicely conforms to the standard Hindu image of cosmic cycles of creation and destruction; but it is problematic logically (without supposing God) and Īśvarakṛṣṇa – without directly opposing it – does not seem to accept it. He says that we do not grasp the unmanifest because it is subtle, not because it does not exist; and that implies that it exists also at present, as an imperceptible homogenous substrate of the world.

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SANKHYA THEORY OF EVOLUTION

PURUSHA

PRAKRUTHI

BUDHI

AHAMKARA

Satwa Rajas Tamas

VAATA – CONTROLLING FACTOR ( AIR)

PITTA – HEAT PRINCIPLE (FIRE)

KAPHA – COLD PRINCIPLE ( WATER + EARTH)

TRIDOSHA ( BIO REGULATORY PRINCIPLE)

Prakriti

Purusha

Three Causes

Rashi purusha, Chikistsa purusha,Karma purusha, Jivatma, Samyoga purusha and Chaturvimsatika purusha etc.

Synonyms of Purusha

No body requires disease as it is obstacle and causes the distraction of manas.

All attributes, actions etc. of bhutas are witnessed by the soul, who alone is knower of all things.

Eka dhatuj purusha

Purusha combines of the six elements ie five mahabhutas and consciousness.

This combination of six elements comes under the perview of the science of medicine.

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Shad dhatuja purusha

All actions are performed for knowledge, happiness, ignorance, misery, truth, life and ownership established here.

All the sources of knowledge of variou kinds establish the causality of purusha.

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Karma purusha

The Purusha is like a tripod, consists of mind, soul and body is the subject matter of Ayurveda.

The subject matter of chikitsa the body(human) is called chikitsa purusha

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Chikitsa Purusha

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Purusha is combined with 24 dhatus Manas Ten indriyas (Sensory and motor organs) Five sense organs and Prakriti (8 elements dhatus) According to Charaka, the supreme Soul is beginingless,no

birth. Purusha is combination of 24 elements is born out of

prompted by liking and dislikings originited from ignorance.

Rashi or chaturvimshatika purusha

These 24 elements are responsible for life. The soul is regarded as a cause of creation of

purusha. Purusha were not there, nothing would happen. Some other type of medical sciences may not

accept the existance of soul but in ideal health of ayurveda accepts the happiness of soul(Atma) as an essential factor.

Sympathy is the important factor for any pathy of treatment and without the sympathy all pathies are useless.

The sympathy is the quality available only in living and cultured organism.

Only according to Samkya darashan philisopy describes about the 25 combination of purusha.

Manas is added in this condition.

Panch vimshatika purusha

Satwa Rajas Tamas

Subjective side Objective side

Motor organs Elements of perceptionFive tanmatras

NOSE

TONGUE

EYE

SKIN

EAR

HANDS

FEET

GENITALS

ANUS

MOUTH

SCENT

FLAVOURS

COLOUR

TOUCH

SOUND

PRITHWI

JALA

AGNI

VAYU

AKASHA

Sense organs

MIND

The previous two types of Purusha Samyoga purusha(Ekadhatuja purusha) and shad-dhatvatmaka purusha being free from the gross body, neither do any work nor can enjoy the fruits of their actions. Their treatment is also not possible in the absence of gross physical body. So the empirical soul or chikitsa purusha is accepted as the aim or purpose of Ayurveda system.

Aim of ayurveda chikitsa

BODY

3 DOSHAS 7 DHATUS 3 MALAS

HEALTH IS THE BALANCE OF BODY HUMOURS, ELEMENTS,

EXCRETORY PRODUCTS,FACULTIES, MIND AND SOUL

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