Ishness…. well to me that’s what Purusha is. That’s the easiest way that I can explain it.
Yoga Sutra 1.3 – The Seer abides in itself.
or how we see ourselves and the greater whole. God the universe and everything.
The seer is also purusha (pure consciousness, unchanging, unconditional awareness). When we discussed this in Hawaii on our YTT this was very hard for me to understand. I got it but I didn’t at the same time. I learn best by what I call dumbing it down. As we discussed it I looked over and Susan and she said its the ‘Ish’. Like when something is blueish. Its blue but it’s also kinda green.
Purusha is the ‘Ish’ of life. I like analogies a lot too. One that kept getting repeated for this was a lake with a muddy bottom. The more you move around the more dirt you stir up the harder it is to see. Well an easier way for me to understand this for some reason is when you go to the grocery store. You’re in the frozen food section and you open the door not really knowing what you want. As you stand there with the door open you remember that you need to shut it cause you can’t remember what it was you were going to get=prakRti. You know what you want is in there but now you can’t see since you just shut the door it’s no frosted over. Purusha is knowing what is the stuff you cant see in the freezer.
Its also kinda like the ‘force’ but its not its like the ‘forceIshNess’. The stuff that makes up the ‘force’. Or the thing that thought of the Big Bang but the Ish of that.
I probably should have written this sooner and it might have made more sense. Please ask questions about this. I understand it, it’s just hard to explain.
See if you can see the ‘Ishness’ in you.
xoxo
Ash
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