Friends, this post may seem a little long, but a big secret of creation is hidden in it. We were talking about the fact that just as Purusha, meaning light, is present everywhere and all the time, similarly, Mool Prakriti, meaning darkness, is also present. If Mool Prakriti was not there, then creation would not have been there. Purusha is absolutely inert because he is complete in his immaterial soul, due to which he does not need anything. Prakriti also runs bacteria or ants, and the same Prakriti runs the big planets and constellations as well. Purusha is a goal, which Prakriti tries to achieve. In that effort, all the works of creation are accomplished through it. Although Prakriti also runs the bodies of developed creatures like elephants, monkeys, humans etc. But there is a specialty here. Another Prakriti named Jeevatma also helps in running them. Or say mool prakriti reaches this stage. Jeevatma works to store all the information related to the life experiences of these creatures. This makes them run more skillful and easy.
Mool Prakriti is the shadow of Mool Purusha. Therefore, there is nothing in it except pure darkness. Like the Purusha, there is no trace of the world in it. But the original nature that’s mool prakriti becomes the soul when a living being with an experiencing mind is born. The worldly subjects that he experiences also start getting stored in the form of subtle codes in the mool prakriti associated with him. This helps him a lot in reaching the Purusha quickly. However, the earlier pure mool prakriti also remains in its place as it is, because it is ageless and immortal like the purusha.
Just as the shadow of the life of every living being including man is formed in the form of his soul as death, similarly the Supreme Purusha will also definitely have it. That very shadow of the Purusha is called Prakriti. It is not real but virtual. Just like the shadow of a tree is not real but virtual. The shadow of a tree is exactly like that tree. With only one difference that it is dark or black. Similarly, Prakriti is also eternal, infinite, ageless, immortal and omnipresent just like the Purusha. The only difference is that it does not have light like the Purusha. Because it is the virtual shadow of the Purusha.
When the creation begins, the smallest original particle that is created first starts moving forward trying to improve itself. It gets the power to move forward from the mool prakriti. That means the mool prakriti is in the form of the soul of that particle. Although the mool prakriti can reach the purusha only through bliss, because complete bliss is the real form of the purusha. But to increase its bliss, it will first have to increase the existence of its creation-form body. Because if there is a bloody conflict between different particles, then how will planets, sun, etc. be formed? If there is a bloody conflict between these bodies and internally too, then how will a calm and stable planet like the earth be formed? If the bloody destruction of creatures like dinosaurs continues on the earth, then how will a highly intelligent and developed creature like man be formed. Until the experiencing brain was not formed in the living being, prakriti kept developing the creation in the greed for existence. Experience is not needed for existence. However, existence and bliss are interconnected. With the development of existence, bliss also develops. However, it appeared later when the brain was formed. After the brain was formed, the speed of evolution of the living being increased manifold, because now it was also being inspired by experience or bliss for development. Experience and bliss are almost the same thing. It was also being inspired by existence even as earlier. After becoming a human, he did difficult Kundalini Yoga Sadhana and experienced the ultimate bliss in the form of Kundalini awakening. It means that the journey of prakriti to Purusha was completed. The mool prakriti merged into Purush while developing, but the mool prakriti also remained the same. It is like making as many shadows as you want from a tree. It means that if the shadow of the tree develops and becomes something else, then also the original shadow of that tree will remain the same.
Friends, the mool prakriti was in its pure original form till the time the experiencing brain was not formed. When the experiential brain was formed, waves of light started flowing in the mool prakriti. We call these waves experience. These light waves were received from the luminous purusha, of course in the virtual form. It means that prakriti and purusha had united with each other. That is why it is said in the scriptures that the universe was created by the union of prakriti and purusha. It’s not said that universe developed from prakriti alone. It means that the creation of the universe had begun. You will say that the universe was already developing. Of course, it was happening but there was no one to experience it at that time. What is the importance of the dance happening in the dark, when no one can see it. Peacock danced in the jungle, main thing is who saw it. It means that the universe was considered to have originated only when the creature who could experience it in the form of purusha-prakriti couple was created. Then prakriti also got the support of bliss to reach the purusha. While searching for more and more bliss, it was in a way searching for purusha in abundance. On getting awakened, that search ended and prakriti merged with purusha. It means that the shadow of the tree merged with the tree. But the shadow of the purusha is divine. No matter how many times it meets the purusha, it never ends.
Purusha is also divine like prakriti. If the light of the sun is continuously taken out, it will end sometime or the other. No matter how much prakriti wants to pull the light of purusha, it never decreases, it remains infinite. Just as a flame of fire can light innumerable lamps without losing anything of itself, similarly a purusha can light many souls without losing anything of himself. Means it can illuminate countless prakrits.
Demystifying Kundalini 