Pradhana
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 01 Mar 2010 13:16 and updated at 01 Mar 2010 13:16
Mahabharata: 18 Parvas
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Mbh.12.310.19533 | The learned say this to be the first creation relating to Pradhana or Prakriti: From Mahat, O king of men, is produced Consciousness. |
Mbh.12.318.19900 | In consequence of Jiva being reflected in Prakriti, the latter is called Pradhana by Sankhyas and Yogins conversant with the original principles as indicated in the Srutis. |
Mbh.12.320.20343 | There was a royal sage of the name of Pradhana. |
Mbh.12.340.22050 | From Him springs forth Abyakta the Unmanifest, whom the learned call Pradhana. |
Mbh.12.347.23009 | Divested of sex, it is called otherwise by the name of Pradhana Supreme or Primary. |
Mbh.12.347.23166 | He is, again the cause of everything, as Pradhana or Prakriti. |
Mbh.12.351.23549 | What has previously, O son, been named Pradhana, and is the mother of the Mahat tattwa is no other than the Effulgence of the Supreme Soul; because He it is who is eternal, without destruction and any end and ever immutable. |
Mbh.13.16.1676 | Thou art Pradhana and Mahat, thou art Unmanifest, and thou art this world. |
Mbh.13.17.2615 | Thou art the foundation upon which rests that Ignorance which is called Pradhana and which, consisting of the three attributes of Sattwa, Rajas, and Tamas is the cause whence the universe has sprung. |
Mbh.13.149.12516 | He that enters all things, besides Himself, He that covers all things, He unto whom sacrificial libations are poured, the Lord of the Past, the Present, and the Future, the Creator or Destroyer of all existent things, the upholder of all existent things, the Existent, the Soul of all, the Originator of all things I, IX; of cleansed Soul, the Supreme Soul, the highest Refuge of all emancipated persons, the Immutable, He that lies enclosed in a case, the Witness, He that knows the material case in which He resides, the Indestructible X, XVII He upon whom the mind rests during Yoga-abstraction, the Guide or leader of all persons conversant with Yoga, the Lord of both Pradhana or Prakriti and Purusha. |
Mbh.14.18.621 | Having first himself assumed a body, he then created Pradhana. |
Mbh.14.18.622 | That Pradhana is the material cause of all embodied creatures, by whom is all this covered and whom all came to know as the highest. |
Mbh.14.18.631 | Though assailed by decrepitude and death and disease, he that understands Pradhana beholds with all equal eye that Consciousness which dwells in all beings endued with consciousness. |
Mbh.14.19.696 | One would, becoming always assiduous in this way and gratified with one's own self, within a very short time attain to that Brahma by beholding which one would become conversant with Pradhana |
Mbh.14.35.1384 | He who does not covet anything and does not cherish the idea of mineness with regard to anything, comes to be regarded, although residing in this world, as identifiable with Brahman, He who is conversant with the truth about the qualities of Pradhana or Nature, acquainted with the creation of all existent objects, divested of the idea of mineness, and without pride, succeeds, without doubt, in emancipating himself. |
Mbh.14.39.1577 | Nature, change or modification, destruction, Pradhana, production, and absorption, undeveloped, not small ie, vast, unshaking, immovable, fixed, existent, and non-existent. |
Mbh.14.47.2006 | He who is conversant with the truths about qualities of Pradhana, and understands the Pradhana as existing in all entities who is free from mineness and egoism, without doubt becomes emancipated. |
Mbh.14.50.2130 | That which is void of smell, void of taste, and void of touch and sound, that which is meditated upon by the sages with the aid of their understanding, is said to be Pradhana. |
Mbh.14.50.2131 | Now, Pradhana is unmanifest. |
Mbh.14.50.2133 | A development of Pradhana when it has become Mahat is Egoism. |
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice. |
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