Weekly definition - Prakriti - Matter ! and Spirit !

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Sarva-yonisu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah,

tasam brahma mahad-yonir-aham bija-pradah pita.

Chapter 14. verse 4

 

Whatever forms are produced, O Kaunteya, in all the wombs

whatsoever, the great Brahma (Mula Prakrti) is their womb, and I the

seed giving Father.

 

Swami Chinamayananda explains thus

 

"In all wombs – in the living world, infinite varieties of beings

are both and continue to live, and they are replaced at every moment

by millions of new births. If the whole Universe is looked at in one

gaze, we find therein, seething activities of new births.

Everywhere, the birth of an organism is nothing but an expression of

Spirit through a given Matter-envelopment. Thus viewed, every Matter

particle is the "womb," which, when dynamited by the "Light of

Consciousness," becomes a potential living being. Every expression

of life is Matter containing within its bosom a tiny spark of the

Spirit.

 

Lord Krishna, as the Supreme Consciousness, Absolute and Infinite,

declares here figuratively: "I am the father of Universe." Who

places the sperm-of-life in the womb-of-Nature (Prakrti). A "Field,"

vitalizing it.

 

The Spirit cannot express Itself without the Matter. These ideas are

summarized in this stanza Lord Krishna says that He is the Eternal

Father, who impregnated the entire world of Matter and arranges the

play of life on the stage of the world."

 

Thus, The Supreme Lord is the father (pita) who sows the seed (bija-

pradah) in all wombs (yonis) from which every form and image

(murtayas) emerges (sambhavanti). It is the nature of Shakti

to `manifest the universe' , therefore she is called the Mother.She

is the Divine creatrix!

 

So, prakriti and 'shakti' are used as synonyms !

 

to be continued ...

 

 

Hari Aum!