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are irreducible to each other, and each of them is existing without beginning. They are beginningless and eternal. However, the world has come into existence out of their impact. The Prakṛti evolves the whole infinitely complicated world out of itself in a graduated series. But the cosmic life which evolves most systematically has an inherent purpose of liberating the soul. Is'varakṛṣṇa says in one of the Kārikās—“As people engage in acts to relieve desires, so does the undiscrete (principle) to liberate the soul." It is clearly stated that the evolution of the Prakṛti is going on for the liberation of the soul. In another Karika it is stated that "The evolution of nature, from intellect to the special elements, is performed for the deliverance of each soul respectively; done for another's sake as for itself." It is made here clear that the evolution occurs for the liberation of the soul as well as for the liberation of the Prakyti. The whole process of evolution from the mahat to the gross elements with Ahamkara, manas, the five sense organs, the five motor organs, the five tanmatras (subtle essences) as the intermediary evolutes is known as the Sankara and Pratisankara means just the reversal of the whole process which consists in the absorption of the effects in their causes respectively. In Pratisankara the gross elements are dissolved in their tanmatras, the tan
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
1 Is'varakṛṣṇa: The Samkhya Kārikā, Kārikā 58-p. 228. Tr. H. T. Colebrooke.
2 Ibid. Kärika 56-p. 224. प्रतिपुरुषविमोक्षार्थं स्वार्थ इव परार्थ आरंभः ।
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