--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John wrote: > >...the phenomenal world is based on consciousness, > > as Patanjali has discussed in his yoga sutras. > > > According to Patanjali, (circa 200 B.C.) the phenomenal > world is based on three constituents, three gunas born > of nature, which make up the field relative field of > prakriti. Totally separate from this is the Purusha, > the Absolute field. According to Patanjali, the process > of Yoga isolates the Purusha from the prakriti, using > the Eightfold Path.
Yes, but there is the Purusha immanent or manifest IN creation, this is Brahm or the highest relative (MMY calls it God consciousness)and there is the Unmanifest Brahman beyond creation, (MMY calls this Unity) his reflection is IN creation as the *manifest* Purusha, it can take any form but is essentially the foundation of all manifest creation. Each Solar system has a solar deity or purusha which animates that creation, we are a part of the Immanent Purusha. The Unmanifest Brahman is the foundation of ALL Solar systems and ALL Galaxies/Universes etc. Each Purusha/Creator is limited by time and space. Brahman is not! Scripture commonly conflates the immanent/manifest Purusha and the Unmanifest Purusha or Brahman. That makes three...OM or Prakriti, Tat the son Brahma or creator, and Sat the Absolute Brahman. SAT-TAT-OM.
