Purusha-Sukta Purusha-Sūkta Purushasukta : the Rig-Vedic hymn in which the four Varṇas (fourfold division of society still found throughout the world) are first mentioned.
... Integral Yoga, Evolution and the Next Species Preface The theory of evolution is not entirely new. The Nasadiya Sukta, the Purusha Sukta. and the Aghamarshana Sukta of the Rig Veda indicate that the Vedic Rishis were aware of the evolutionary process, which begins with the Inconscience as a starting-point and higher levels of consciousness evolve step ...
... in The Bulletin of physical Education—August 1953. ² According to Plotinus the Divine is never more itself than when it "empties itself" in self-sacrificing love. ³ Described in the Purusha-Sukta of The Rigveda. Page 332 self-giving—this is the hidden mystery, the quintessential truth of creation and evolution. All beings, all creatures, even all things which appear as inanimate ...
... look farther, they cared little or only subordinately for its material factors and looked always first and foremost for its symbolic, religious or psychological significance. This appears in the Purushasukta of the Veda, where the four orders are described as having sprung from the body of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs and feet. To us this is merely a poetical image and its sense is ...
... which the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity are reconciled with the perfections of the power of wisdom, heroism, harmony and skills in works, to which reference is made in the famous Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda. When the Rigveda closes with the call to join together and to commune together in harmony, - samgacchadhvam samvadadhvam, the vision that has been placed before us is that of the ...
... in which the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity are reconciled with the perfections of the power of wisdom, heroism, harmony and skills in works, to which reference is made in the famous Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda. When the Rigveda closes with the call to join together, and to commune together in harmony, — samgacchadhvam samvadadhvam, the vision that has been placed before us is that of ...
... hand, the truths of chaturvarnya need to be distilled and they can even be further deepened, heightened and enriched. The hints and clues are already available in the Indian experience. The Purusha Sukta, which is often cited in support of the chaturvarnya, when rightly understood, gives us the underlying truth of the integrality of the four divine qualities. Its description of the creative Deity ...
... mean Brahmans by caste or priests by profession; the Fathers here are warriors as well as sages. The four castes are only mentioned in the Rig Veda once, in that profound but late composition, the Purushasukta. × But also perhaps "shining", cf. indu , the moon; ina , glorious, the sun; indh , to kindle ...
... too has written about such archetype, which he called “the body of the creative Deity.” When considering the four varnas – brahmins , kshatriyas , vaishyas , and shudras – he mentions the Purushasukta of the Vedas “where the four orders are described as having sprung from the body of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs and feet. To us,” he comments, “this is merely a poetical image ...
... therefore a dispensation of the Spirit that expresses itself in the human corporate and individual existence. The Gita's line is in fact an intellectual rendering of the well-known symbol in the Vedic Purusha-Sukta. But what then should be the natural basis and form of practice of these functions? The practical basis in ancient times came to be the hereditary principle. A man's social function and position ...
... higher perfection ¦when the Spirit is made to manifest its four powers, the power of ¦ wisdom, the. power of heroism, the power of harmony and the Page 129 power of skill in works. The Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda makes it clear that these four powers are all spiritual in character and that ' is when all of them are fully manifested that the deepest divinity can become operative in our ...
... be uplifted to their higher perfection when the Spirit is made to manifest its four powers, the power of wisdom, the power of heroism, the power of harmony and the power of skill in works. The Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda makes it clear that these four powers are all spiritual in character and that it is Page 385 when all of them are fully manifested that the deepest divinity can ...
... made in the image of man! Still there is a truth behind this myth. 29 When writing about the four varnas – brahmins , kshatriyas , vaishyas , and shudras – Sri Aurobindo mentioned the Purushasukta of the Vedas “where the four orders are described as having sprung from the body of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs and feet.” To us, he comments, this is merely a poetical image ...
... neither today nor tomorrow but has motion in the consciousness in another", 38 "catvāri śrnga” "trayoasya pāda” (the four-homed bull with three feet), 39 and Purusha described in the Purusha Sukta. 40 The words used in the Upanishads are: "tad ejati tad na ejati” (That moves and That which does not move), 41 "avyaktāt parah pursah” (the highest Purusha above the Unmanifest). 42 ... Aditi, Divine Mother, and of the Supreme Purusha that was conceived and experienced as Transcendental Originator of the universe. At the deeper level, the truth of sacrifice can best be seen in the Purusha Sukta of the Veda, 56 where the Purusha sacrifices himself into the abyss Page 69 of darkness or inconscient in order to dynamically participate in the growth and the evolution of the world ...
... dead habit in course of time and turn into a pernicious thing as well. For example, there was the institution of caturvarnya which, in its Vedic origins (as may be inferred from the celebrated Purusha Sukta), had a "symbolic, religious or psychological significance"; no mere poetic image this, no "economic evolution complicated by political causes", no iniquitous system of exploitation: To ...
... evolve and the supramental man, the Divine Man will walk the earth, he shows at the same time that the Supermind is involved here and its evolution is, therefore, inevitable. In the Veda (in the Purusha Sukta) it is stated that the Supreme Purusha has taken the plunge into nescience—the Superconscient is submerged in the Inconscient. And that it is from the Inconscient that the evolution must necessarily ...
... the need for gradual development, balanced development, and comprehensive development. The original concept of the chaturvarna (four orders) was in the Veda symbolic and spiritual. The Purusha Sukta of the Veda speaks of the four orders as having sprung from the body of the creative Deity (Purusha), from his head, arms, thighs and legs. In the Vedic idea, the four orders represented the ...
... Catur-varnya, miscalled the system of the four castes,—for caste is a conventional, varna a symbolic and typal institution.... This [symbolic significance of the Catur-varnya] appears in the Purusha Sukta of the Veda where the four orders are described as having sprung from the body of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs and feet. To us this is merely a poetical image and its sense is ...
... of a craftsman. In fact, all the four natures of brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya and shudra are divine in character. They are all born from the Divine. This is what the Veda speaks of in its famous Purusha sukta. It is from the Divine himself that all the four - brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya and shudra—have become manifest. All the four have become manifest, because all of them are inherent in the Divine ...
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