purusha

[ poor-uh-shuh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of purusha¹

From the Sanskrit word puruṣa literally, man

Example Sentences

Way back we had a project we collaborated on called “Purusha and the Spiritual Planet.”

From Washington Post

Indra is represented at various times and in various texts as having sprung from the mouth of Purusha, or as being a child of heaven and earth, whom he thrust asunder, as Tutenganahau thrust asunder Rangi and Papa in the New Zealand myth.

From Project Gutenberg

Here we are naturally reminded of the dismemberment of Osiris, Ymir, Purusha, Chokanipok and so many other gods and beasts in Egypt, India, Scandinavia and America.

From Project Gutenberg

The prince swept his hand toward the great disk of silver that had lifted above the sal trees, saying: "My people believe that luminous, dead planet up there is the soul, purusha, of Brahm the Creator; fitting light for the path of a princess who is singing out of the desolation of her soul."

From Project Gutenberg

Women are just like men are -- little bits of purusha caught in prakriti, lost and isolated in all that duhkha.

From Time Magazine Archive