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Meaning of purusha | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. In early Vedas, a cosmic man whose sacrifice by the gods created all life.
  2. In the Upanishad, an abstract essence of self, spirit, and the Universal Principle that is eternal, without form and all-pervasive, distinguished from the mutable material world.

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