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THE THREE PURUSHAS more minutely the relations of God and the individual soul to Nature. "Prakriti is the basic source of cause, effect and agency ; the Purusha, of the sense of enjoyment, of happiness and grief ; for it is the soul in Nature ( Purusha in Prakriti ) that enjoys the threefold workings of things caused by Nature, ( the play of conservation, creation, and destruction; reception, reaction and resistance ; illumination, misconception and obscuration; calm, work and inertia ; all being different manifestations of three fundamental forces called the gunas or essential properties of Prakriti ), and it is the attachment of the soul to the gunas that is the cause of births in bodies, good and evil. The highest Purusha ip this body is the one who watches, who sanctions, who enjoys, who upholds, who is the mighty Lord and the Supreme Soul.”
The personality of the Supreme Soul is universal, not individual. Whatever is in all creatures, character, idea, imagination,
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