Category:Prakrti Is Female
Theme Analysis
The profound Sāṅkhya philosophy regarding the energetic principle forms the foundation of this category. Through these teachings, Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies the absolute distinction between the supreme enjoyer and the enjoyed. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the original puruṣa, or the supreme male, whereas all His energies—both the material elements and the conscious living entities—are classified as prakṛti, or the female principle. By understanding this divine relationship, the living entity can abandon the false desire to lord over material nature and return to their original, joyful position as an eternal servant.
- The Supreme Male Principle: The Supreme Lord is the only true enjoyer and the energetic source of everything, eternally situated as the original puruṣa.
- The Material Elements as Female: The external world, consisting of earth, water, fire, and mind, represents the inferior material energy, which is inert and entirely controlled as prakṛti.
- The Living Entity as the Superior Energy: Though conscious, the jīva is constitutionally female and meant to be enjoyed by the Lord, rendering the concept of merging to become one with the supreme male impossible.
- The Illusion of Material Gender: Temporary bodily designations of man and woman are merely external dresses; in spiritual reality, every conditioned soul is originally prakṛti and under the control of the supreme puruṣa.
- The Supreme Husband: Kṛṣṇa acts as the ultimate protector, maintainer, and husband for all living entities, while the living beings find absolute peace by accepting their subordinate, female position.
- The Perfection of Devotion: True spiritual bliss is awakened when the individual soul stops trying to exploit matter and actively cooperates with the supreme puruṣa in a mood of loving servitude.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Understanding Why Prakṛti Is Female in Vedic Science.
Pages in category "Prakrti Is Female"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- If one wants to continue his association with prakrti, the female energy of Krsna, and be separated from Krsna by the illusion that he is able to enjoy prakrti, he must continue in his conditional life
- In the Bhagavad-gita Arjuna recognized Krsna as purusa. Purusam sasvatam adyam. So He's the purusa. God is purusa, male. God is not female. The sakti, that is female, prakrti
- In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakrtim para jiva-bhutam maha-baho (BG 7.5). Prakrti means female, enjoyed. So jiva is described in the Bhagavad-gita as prakrti. The first prakrti is the material elements, eight
- In the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna says that these material elements - earth, water, air, fire, mind, intelligence, ego - they are bhinna me prakrti astadha (BG 7.4). Prakrti. He is purusa. Prakrti means female. So they are also all energy
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- Jiva-bhuta, the living entities, they have been described as prakrti, and prakrti means female. And Krsna has been described as purusa. So purusa is the enjoyer, and prakrti is the enjoyed
- Just like here we have got conception of male and female, similarly, originally, God and His energy, God is male and energy female, prakrti and purusa
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- Krishna is the only male & all others being energies of Krishna, they're prakrti, or female. Please don't try to understand this male & female in the material sense. In other words, our perfection of life will be actually realizing that we're all females
- Krsna had to conquer such queen by fighting. They're not ordinary wife. But still, they say that "In this way I have become maidservant." So everyone is maidservant. We are also maidservant, prakrti. Prakrti means female
- Krsna has explained this material world, bhumir apah analo vayuh. This is also nature, prakrti. There is another nature, prakrti. Prakrti means stri-linga, woman. Jiva-bhuta, the living entities, are not mentioned in this connection as purusa. Not purusa
- Krsna is the real husband not only of the gopis, but of every living entity. Everyone should perfectly understand that Krsna is the real husband of all living entities, who are described in the Bhagavad-gita as prakrti (female), not purusa (male)
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- Male and female-two parts required, negative and positive. So the male part is Bhagavan, and the female part is the prakrti, and combination of purusa and prakrti is the varieties of creation. This is Sankhya philosophy
- Male, female, these two things. The supreme male is Krsna, and everyone, either this dull matter or the living entities, they are called female, prakrti. Prakrti means female, and purusa means male
- Matter is called prakrti, which refers to female energy. A woman is prakrti, a female. A female cannot produce a child without the association of a purusa, a man
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- One day Vallabha Bhatta said to Advaita Acarya, "Every living entity is female (prakrti) and considers Krsna her husband (pati)"
- One with the Supreme, how it is possible? The Supreme is purusa and I am prakrti. So there must be difference between purusa and prakrti. The prakrti cannot . . . a female cannot artificially become a male. That is not possible
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- Prakrti is always under control, whether inferior or superior. Prakrti is female, and she is controlled by the Lord just as the activities of a wife are controlled by the husband. BG 1972 Introduction
- Prakrti means which is controlled, which is under... Real meaning of prakrti is a woman or a female
- Prakrti means woman, naturally a woman is under the control of the man. That is our Vedic system, and natural system also. However the woman may claim equal rights, they are under the control of the man. That is natural
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- The attraction between man and woman is the cause of bondage for both. Actually both belong to the para prakrti, the superior energy of the Lord, but both are actually prakrti - female
- The conception of female God, that is not authorized. Paramah puman yo. So female is prakrti, nature
- The Lord provides everyone with his quota. Actually, however, every living entity is prakrti, or female, and Krsna is the only husband
- The opposite number is, mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimuktes tamo-dvaram yositam sangi-sangam. Yosit. Yosit means enjoyable, female, or prakrti
- Tvam adyah purusah. Purusa means enjoyer. God is not female. Sometimes they worship a female as God, like Durga, Kali, and so many others. But God is purusa. Everyone is prakrti. Prakrti means female. Everyone knows it
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- We are trying to be under the guidance of Radharani, daivi-prakrti. Prakrti means woman, and daivi, transcendental woman
- We have got little conception, male and female. So prakrti means the female, the object of enjoyment, and purusa means the enjoyer. So here, although we are dressed in a different way, male or female, everyone is trying to enjoy
- What is the experience of Arjuna? Arjuna said: "You are . . . you are the Supreme Person, purusam. You are not female. You are not prakrti. You are purusa, sasvata, and the original, sasvatam, eternally." Not that, the Mayavadis, - Now impersonal
- When the purusa and prakrti, male and female, enjoy, they enjoy, they get the same pleasure, but one is purusa; one is prakrti. Similarly, Krsna is purusa, and we are prakrti. If we enjoy with Krsna, then the ananda, sac-cid-ananda, is there