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Atman and Mokşa
thereby securing for the former the experiences of life (bhoga), or, if the time for it is ripe, final freedom ( apavarga) through right knowledge (viveka).
The Purusa and the Prakrti being entirely exclusive of each other, and the Puruşa having no physical position or magnitude, it is difficult to understand how it comes to be connected with the Prakặti. The relation between the Purusa and the Praksti is described in the Kārikā to be like the association between a lame and a blind person. The Prakịti, being completely insentient (man) possesses no vision but possesses tremendous power for activity, and hence, it is evermoving, but due to the want of vision and intelligence, it does not know the way in which it should act; the Paru a is all-intelligence but being devoid of the three attributes, is eternally passive, inactive and inert. It cannot move by itself though it possesses the vision that reveals to itself the way by which it has to go. But the Praksti is only physically strong, and therefore, it is described as 'blind' and the Purusa is no doubt a visionary but it cannot move by itself; hence, it is described to be like a lame person who visualises his way but cannot move because of the lack of physical activity. It is said in the Sārakhya Kārikā --"For the soul's contemplation of nature, and for its abstraction, the union of both takes place, as the halt and blind. By that union a creation is framed." The Praksti is in no
Is’varakļşņa : S kmhya Karikā, p. 104. Tr. H, T, Colebrooke,
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