Category: Mahāpurāṇa

Ahaṁkāra

It refers to self-consciousness and is something like awakening. It causes the rise of individual identity which did not exist in the sleeping state. Ahaṁkāra is that which leads to the making of self and…

Buddhi

Mahātattva, Hiraṇyagarbha – Buddhi It refers to the supreme intelligence as the power of understanding and unbounded reason. Compare this to the buddhi of individual beings with limited understanding and bounded cultured reasoning. It is…

Tattva definition

There are five tattva jointly called the pañca tattva where pañca means five and tattva means principle or element. Tattva refers to the truth or reality associated with any state of a being. In philosophy…

Mahāpurāṇa

Śiva Mahāpurāṇa, besides the Mahātmya, is comprised of seven Saṁhitās or books. Each is aligned to one of the seven major chakra. The vidyeśvara samhita is the first book aligned to the mūlādhāra chakra in…