Purusha Sukta gives a description of the spiritual unity of the universe.
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11 Facts About Purusha Sukta
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From this being, the Purusha Sukta holds, the original creative will proceeds which causes the projection of the universe in space and time.
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Purusha Sukta is described as a being who pervades everything conscious and unconscious universally.
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Purusha Sukta is poetically depicted as a being with thousand heads, eyes and legs, enveloping not just the earth, but the entire universe from all sides and transcending it by ten fingers length - or transcending in all 10 dimensions.
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Purusha Sukta holds that the world is created by and out of a Yajna or exchange of the Purusha.
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Purusha Sukta gives an expression to immanence of radical unity in diversity and is therefore, seen as the foundation of the Vaishnava thought, Bhedabheda school of philosophy and Bhagavata theology.
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Concept of the Purusha Sukta is from the Samkhya Philosophy which is traced to the Indus Valley period.
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Purusha Sukta is mirrored directly in the ancient Zoroastrian texts, found in the Avesta Yasna and the Pahlavi Denkard.
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Many 19th and early 20th century scholars questioned as to when parts or all of Purusha Sukta were composed, and whether some of these verses were present in the ancient version of Rigveda.
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Purusha Sukta, considered as a hymn of the Rigveda, is among the latest portions of that collection, is clearly perceptible from its contents.
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Verses about social estates in the Purusha Sukta are considered to belong to the latest layer of the Rigveda by scholars such as V Nagarajan, Jamison and Brereton.
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