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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Sakuya
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The first product of the Praksti is Mahat or the Great, which acts as the cause of all illumination. It equally causes the psychical as well as the physical products. From the Mahat is caused Ahamkāra the self-sense and the five subtle essences known as the tanmatras of sound, touch, smell, form or colour and taste. On the other side, from the Mahat the Manas is created, and in addition to the Manas or mind, are produced the five sense organs, the five motor organs and the five gross elements - i.e., light, air, water, ether and earth. All these are the various factors which have their share in the formation of the world. All the mental and material products are only the successive manifestations of the fundamental Prakrti. These twenty-four kinds of things are evolved quite in an orderly way from their original source. It is the Prakrti that is present in both the beautiful and ugly, good and bad things. Praksti acts as a substratum of the qualities which are only its manifestations. The Praksti is at the root of everything of the world. It is all-pervasive and the world is a creation of the Praksti out of itself.
The Puruşa is pure consciousness. It is omnipresent, eternal and immutable. It is entirely passive as all movement or activity is totally confined to Prakřti. The Purusa is only the receiver of experiences, and therefore, it is supposed to be only the enjoyer (bhoktā) and never the doer (kartā). The Puruşa is wrongly supposed to be active being identified sometimes with some evolutes of the Praksti. is'varakışņa describes the Purusa in the following
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