Concept

Prakriti

Overview

nature in Hinduism

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We will take up the categories we have been discussing and come to the particulars. If we remember we started with _Prakriti_, or Nature. This Nature is called by the _Sânkhya_ philosophers indiscrete or inseparate, which is defined as perfect balance of the materials in it; and it naturally follows that in perfect balance there cannot be any motion.
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
The chapter “PRAKRITI AND PURUSHA” is titled for Prakriti; states what Prakriti is.
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There are hence only the categories of admixture and of modification present. The Indians say:—“Nature has these three qualities in her own right as her forms and characteristics; other things have them only because they are present in them as effects of the former.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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But if we had to communicate to the observer, for reflection, and in a word, the explanation of their inner nature, it would be best to make use of that Sanscrit formula which occurs so often in the sacred books of the Hindoos, and is called Mahavakya, i.e., the great word: “_Tat twam asi_,” which means, “this living thing art thou.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
States what Prakriti is.
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