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When the Indian school of philosophy, the Samkhyas, say that the universe comes from permanent, primal matter – what they call prakriti, with its three universal constituents, the three gunas – this is the position of a cause being static or permanent.
What Is the Self, Does the Self Have a Beginning, Will It Have an End? 2008
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'prakriti' - seeing the individual as a whole - has greatly helped biomedical researchers understand new disciplines such as pharmacogenomics (how an individual's genetic makeup influences response to a drug).
SciDev.Net 2010
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He thinks, therefore, that the last clause of the second line means 'should seek to subdue prakriti which is the layasthanam of mahattattwa.'
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The ancient Kama Sutra mentions the performance of fellatio by masculine and feminine people of a third sex tritiya prakriti.
Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009
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It wasn't the whole country that earned the karmic merit for these incidents to happen, it was the beneficent act probably of a handful of powerful sages using prakriti siddhi to protect the country.
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It wasn't the whole country that earned the karmic merit for these incidents to happen, it was the beneficent act probably of a handful of powerful sages using prakriti siddhi to protect the country.
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It wasn't the whole country that earned the karmic merit for these incidents to happen, it was the beneficent act probably of a handful of powerful sages using prakriti siddhi to protect the country.
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It wasn't the whole country that earned the karmic merit for these incidents to happen, it was the beneficent act probably of a handful of powerful sages using prakriti siddhi to protect the country.
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The yogi seeks an end to pain by discerning the difference between consciousness (purusha) and manifestation (prakriti) and to realize his or her identification with purusha, the seer.
Tantric philosophy Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Nature is Her effulgent shakti, not inconscient prakriti or illusory maya.
Tantra and Transcendentalism – Emerson and Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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