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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN
enjoying Nature, the akshara Purusha is the soul above Nature and watching her. But there is One who is not seated on the tree but occupies and possesses it, who is not only lord of Himself, but lord of all that is ; He is higer than the kshara, higher than the akshara, He is Purushottama, the Soul one with God, with the All. .
These three Purushas are described in the fifteenth chapter of the Gita. "There are two Purushas in the world, the akshara and the kshara,-the kshara is all creatures, the akshara is called Kutas tha, the one on the summit. There is another Purusha, the highest ( uttama ), called also the Paramatma or Supreme Spirit, who enters into the three worlds, ( the worlds of sushupti, swapna, jag rat, otherwise the causal, mental and physical planes of existence ), and sustains them as their imperishable lord.” And in the thirteenth chapter, while drawing the distinction between the lower Purusha and the higher, Srikrishna defines
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