You are the subject, Puruṣa, and everything you can experience, perceive, speak, imagine, or think is Prakṛti. The only real spiritual question is to determine the right relationship between Puruṣa and Prakṛti. India came up with a beautiful answer: Worship Prakṛti with reverence, but do not try to possess or exploit her. The Shakti tradition with the Devi-puja is nothing but an answer to this question of right relationship. Durga, Ambika, and Kali — they all represent Prakṛti.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. When you were talking of how our current systems being a whitewashed extension of what already exists in the jungle, my question is, if the animal nature is so innate, natural and core to the human experience, then does one need to embrace it and perhaps enhance it in one’s everyday life? Or one needs to be able to tame it, harness it, and mold it in a way that makes us a human and different from animals?
Acharya Prashant: Lovely question. You see, this is really the only spiritual question possible: what to do with Prakṛti? That which you are calling as one’s innate nature, classically we just call it Prakṛti. Prakṛti exists both outside us in the form of the jungle we referred to, and it exists in our person as well. This body and all its systems, they too are prakṛtik, right?
Now, that’s the question—what to do with it? You can’t live without it, and you can’t live with it as it is. So, who are you? That’s classically called as the Puruṣa. Puruṣa
