Namaste Atanu and Kallol
Atanu,
Permit me to jump in here, as I find your clarification, of a question useful to re-focus thoughts. We do need to clear the inconsistencies.
My understanding is as follows. I am influenced by Advaita, intially from the Vaishav literature but more recently I am finding Shakti-Shiva to be more appealing to my intellect.
Prakriti cannot, never has nor never will exist without turiya. Turiya, or consciousness, is the foundation for all existance. Turiya is Brahman.
Everything that prakriti requires is found in prakriti: it is a system. So food to keep the body alive is a part of the same eco-system. What allows prakriti to be experienced is turiya or consicousness. It is because you are consciousness, that you can say "I tasted the food" or "I know the body". You are consciousness experiencing prakriti. "Ignorance" arises when we identify our true self as the body i.e. as prakriti.
The way I see it is that nature (prakriti) has arisen from pure consciousness through the will of the divine i.e. the Creator (Brahman/Krishna/Shiva). However it is not independent from the Creator, but rather everything in prakriti arises, is sustained, and disolves on (or in) the foundation of the Creator (pure consciousness or turiya).
This is why turiya permeates all, yet is independent of it. So a man can kill another man, and all this goes on in prakriti only and the turiya looks on unaffected, eternal, divine. It cannot be cut or burnt, nor does it act or do.
All doing and changes occour in prakriti (by Shakti in the Shiva-Shakti view). It is for this reason described as a play on a screen, because all change is going on in the changeless foundation of turiya/consciousness/Brahman.
I hope that makes my perspective more easy to follow.
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