Re: Who or what controls the mind and intellect, according to the Bhagavad Gita?
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Namasté Atanu
My perception is the reverse “Prakriti is playing in me – I am purusha – I am consciousness.”
namaste Snip
I am afraid i do not understand this. Prakriti (Pradhana) is jada. Prakriti may have white, red, or black colour. But the preference for a color belongs to Purusha. Atman is preference less. It some purushas (actors) may lose themselves due to preference.
Purushah prakritistho hi bhungkte prakritijaan gunaan;
Kaaranam gunasango’sya sadasadyoni janmasu.
13. 22. The soul seated in Nature experiences the qualities born of Nature; attachment to the qualities is the cause of his birth in good and evil wombs.
Prakriti is the cause, being the repository of qualities but intelligence to either get deluded or to come over is of Purusha.
What you say "---I am purusha – I am consciousness ----", is the pinnacle state. But I was talking of stepwise gain of jnana -- and in that state even prakritic objects and qualities are special modifications of consciousness.
I will give it more time.
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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