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PURUSHA SUKTHAM
Verse 5
ADHI PURUSHA
tasmAt virAd ajAyata | virAjo adhipUrusha : | sa jAto atyaricyata I pashcAd bhumimatho pura: || 5 ||
From Him (original Supreme Being - Purusha) was born the Universe. From this Universe came the First Man (Adhi Purusha - Adam). As soon as he was born, he multiplied himself. Later, he expanded throughout the earth and they began to build cities.
The Theosophical dictionary gives the meaning of Viraj as follows: "Brahma separating his body into two halves, male and female, creates in them Vach and Viraj. In plainer terms and esoterically Brahma the Universe, differentiating, produced thereby material nature, Viraj, and spiritual intelligent Nature, Vach - which is the Logos of Deity or the manifested expression of the eternal divine Ideation." "Now as Vach, although feminine in gender, as a noun really represents the logoic aspect of Brahma, Viraj, although masculine in gender, as a noun represents the perpetually active and energic forces of manifested nature in and through which vibrates the unceasing activity of the logoic Vach."
Vairaja(s) (Sanskrit) [from viraj widely shining one]
A class of gods emanating from Brahma in his aspect of creator collectively as Viraj, the Third Logos; hence, the celestial beings immediately derived from Viraj. Identified with the kumaras and the manasaputras, as well as the agnishvattas. They are the hierarchies of cosmic conscious and selfconscious dhyani-chohans who spring forth directly from the Third Logos, and furnish the intellectual background and vital urge of the hierarchies of beings who later produce the manifested universe from the ideation emanating from the Third Logos and the vairajas.
Here is the traditional Hindu paraphrase where Purusha is identified with Brahma.
From that Purusha was born, The scintillating, ever shining universe, And from that was born the Purusha called Brahma, And he spread himself everywhere, And created the earth and then, The bodies of all beings.
From Purusha came forth the universe. The creative aspect of his, Brahma, came forth, and grew to include everything in himself. This is why the universe is called 'bramhAnda", the egg of Brahma. "BramhAnda" is also an adjective indicating magnitude. This image of extending above and on all sides of the earth is in concordance with Ranganathamuni.
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