EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

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EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The chief characteristics of purusa in Samkhya philosophy is
A
Non-attached
B
Transcendent
C
Ever liberated
D
All of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Purusha is all-pervasive, all-conscious, unmoving, immutable, immaterial, and devoid of desire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Puruṣa is the witness-consciousness. It is absolute, independent, free, imperceptible, unknowable through other agencies, above any experience by mind or senses and beyond any words or explanations. It remains pure, “nonattributive consciousness". Puruṣa is neither produced nor does it produce.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samkhya posits the existence of an infinite number of similar but separate purushas, none superior to any other. Because purusha and prakriti are sufficient to explain the universe, the existence of a god is not hypothesized.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sankhya philosophy teaches us that the universe was born from the union of Prakriti and Purusha. Prakriti here refers to the basic cosmic material that is the root of all beings, and Purusha to the spirit or conscious energy that governs life and reality.

Detailed explanation-5: -Purusha is the soul, the Self, pure consciousness, and the only source of consciousness. The word literally means “man.” Prakriti is that which is created. It is nature in all her aspects. Prakriti literally means “creatrix, ” the female creative energy.

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