Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 3 - Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== ======================================================================== Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 8:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-3. ========================================================================= The only way we can escape unnecessary entanglement in the jumble of words explaining this verse is by understanding prakriti and purusha to be two properties, as it were, of the Supreme Being. On the one hand, the spatial extension of the Supreme Being is prakriti; on the other hand, it is omniscience acting, which is purusha. There seems to be a sound explanation because the Vedanta doctrine also holds that the process of creation begins with Ishvara and becomes more and more perspicacious from Hiranyagarbha and Virat onwards. That is, the infinite Brahman limits itself in a particular manner, not by force...