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puruṣhaḥ

  • the individual soul
  • person
  • a person
  • the cosmic personality of God, encompassing the material creation

Also appears as puruṣhāḥ, puruṣhau

In 12 verses

Chapter 1 8 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 2.21

    वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम्

    puruṣhaḥ — person

    One who knows it as imperishable, eternal, unborn and unchanging — how could such a person kill, or cause anyone to be killed?

  2. 3.4

    न कर्मणामनारम्भान्नैष्कर्म्यं पुरुषोऽश्नुते

    puruṣhaḥ — a person

    No one reaches freedom from action by refusing to act, nor perfection merely by renouncing.

  3. 8.4

    अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्

    puruṣhaḥ — the cosmic personality of God, encompassing the material creation

    The ground of matter is perishable nature; the ground of the gods is the cosmic person; and I am the lord of offerings, here in this body, best of the embodied.

  4. 8.22

    पुरुषः स परः पार्थ भक्त्या लभ्यस्त्वनन्यया

    puruṣhaḥ — the Supreme Divine Personality

    That highest person, son of Pritha, is reached by devotion to nothing else — he in whom all beings rest, and by whom all this is pervaded.

  5. 9.3

    अश्रद्दधानाः पुरुषा धर्मस्यास्य परन्तप

    puruṣhāḥ — (such) persons

    Those without faith in this way, Arjuna, do not reach me. They return again to the round of death.

  6. 11.18

    त्वमक्षरं परमं वेदितव्यं त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्

    puruṣhaḥ — the Supreme Divine Person

    You are the imperishable, the highest to be known. You are the ultimate resting place of this world; you are the undying guardian of what is right; you are, I believe, the everlasting person.

  7. 11.38

    त्वमादिदेवः पुरुषः पुराण स्त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्

    puruṣhaḥ — personality

    You are the first of gods, the ancient person, the ultimate resting place of this world; the knower and the known, and the highest dwelling. By you this world is pervaded, you of endless form.

  8. 13.21

    कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते

    puruṣhaḥ — the individual soul

    Nature is said to be the ground of cause and effect and of doing; the person is said to be the ground of the experience of pleasure and pain.

  9. 13.22

    पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान्

    puruṣhaḥ — the individual soul

    The person, seated in nature, experiences the strands born of nature. Attachment to those strands is the cause of birth in good wombs and bad.

  10. 15.16

    द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव च

    puruṣhau — beings

    There are two beings in this world: the perishable and the imperishable. All creatures are the perishable; the unchanging is called the imperishable.

  11. 15.17

    उत्तमः पुरुषस्त्वन्यः परमात्मेत्युदाहृतः

    puruṣhaḥ — Divine Personality

    But there is another, the highest person, called the supreme self — who, entering the three worlds, upholds them, unchanging.

  12. 17.3

    सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत

    puruṣhaḥ — human being

    Everyone's faith accords with their nature, Arjuna. A person is made of their faith: as their faith is, so are they.