Shivashaktyatmakam Brahma

Shivashaktyatmakam Brahma is the first sutra of the first chapter of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar's Ananda Sutram.

Purport

The purport of this sutra is—

Brahma (Cosmic Entity) is the composite of Shiva (Consciousness) and Shakti (Operative Principle).

Explanation

To explain this sutra, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar told, although a piece of paper has two sides, for the sake of argument, they cannot be separated from the one paper entity. Removal of one side of the paper jeopardizes the existence of the other. Similar is the relation of Purusa (Consciousness) and Prakrti (Operative Principle) in the Cosmic Entity. They can not stand without each other. That is the reason it is considered that they are an inalienable concomitant.

Sarkar told, although as a philosophical word, shiva or puruśa is extensively used, in common parlance the word átmá (“soul” or “self”) is more extensively used in the same sense. The word "Shiva: means "witnessing consciousness". The word "Purusha" means the same thing—

Pure shete yah sah puruśah
The witness-ship that lies quiescent in every entity is the puruśa.

References

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Ananda Sutram With: Shivashaktyatmakam Brahma

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