Purusha
The formless, choiceless, passive awareness that is the witness to all creation — pure energy without form, color, or attributes.
Purusha — Pure Consciousness
Purusha is the ultimate Truth, the ultimate healing power, the ultimate enlightenment — the transcendental state of being and existence. Purusha is energy, and this energy is choiceless, passive awareness. It is formless, colorless, beyond attributes and takes no active part in Creation. Purusha can be called pure Consciousness.
Pure Consciousness dwells within the body, which Sankhya describes as a city of nine gates (two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, the mouth, the anus, and the urethral opening). There is no matter without energy, but there can be energy without matter — hence Purusha can exist without Prakruti. The unmanifested state of Purusha and Prakruti together is called Brahma, the state of pure Awareness.
In daily life, Sankhya teaches that we are not our body, face, or emotions — we are Purusha, the dweller dwelling in this body. We are not anger but the watcher of anger, not fear but the witness of fear. This understanding is the basis of self-healing through Sankhya philosophy.
Source: Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles, Chapter One: Shad Darshan (Six Philosophies of Life)
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