Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 16.4 - Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================= ============================================================== Wednesday, February 02, 2022. 19:30. Chapter -16. The Supreme Person - 4 ============================================================= The Supreme Godhead is Purushottama, in the language of the Bhagavadgita. The purusha is consciousness, the principle with which we are acquainted in terms of the Samkhya philosophy, the seeing and knowing subject that is apparently counterposed with prakriti, or the world of matter. There are two realities, or two principles, normally considered by us as existing by themselves: the purusha and the prakriti, the Knower and the Known, consciousness and matter, the observer and the whole universe outside, called respectively here as the akshara or the imperishable, and the kshara or the perishable. But, transcending both, and comprehending both, absorbing both in itself, is the Purushottama, the Supreme Purusha abov...