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  • For this reason, also, the clause 'Higher than the person there is nothing' cannot be taken as meant to deny the existence of an entity beyond the 'purusha' in the Sânkhya sense.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • A community, even a Yoga community, sickens when its individual members do not extend the bonds of unity to one another through the exercise of awareness and purusha dharma the Soul's religious duty.

    Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini" Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2011

  • A community, even a Yoga community, sickens when its individual members do not extend the bonds of unity to one another through the exercise of awareness and purusha dharma the Soul's religious duty.

    Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini" Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2011

  • A community, even a Yoga community, sickens when its individual members do not extend the bonds of unity to one another through the exercise of awareness and purusha dharma the Soul's religious duty.

    Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: The One-Legged "Yogini" Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2011

  • The posthuman in this sense is the crossing of the barrier of Ignorance into Knowledge, the arrival of the purusha at a freedom which is not only master of cosmos but its creator.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The posthuman in this sense is the crossing of the barrier of Ignorance into Knowledge, the arrival of the purusha at a freedom which is not only master of cosmos but its creator.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • This is the perpetually transitional nature of purusha, what may be called the Aurobindian definition of the human.

    Aurobindian definition of the human Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The posthuman in this sense is the crossing of the barrier of Ignorance into Knowledge, the arrival of the purusha at a freedom which is not only master of cosmos but its creator.

    The tension between Hegel and Nietzsche is a constant and living dialog in Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The posthuman in this sense is the crossing of the barrier of Ignorance into Knowledge, the arrival of the purusha at a freedom which is not only master of cosmos but its creator.

    Aurobindian definition of the human Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • This is the perpetually transitional nature of purusha, what may be called the Aurobindian definition of the human.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

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