Friends, the mystery of creation has been explained best by Sankhya philosophy. Perhaps the scriptures mean that even if prakriti created the creation in the beginning, it was the prakriti-purusha couple who created it, because prakriti created the creation inspired by the possibility of union with the purusha. What Buddha did not explain to his inquisitive disciple in the olden days due to lack of time that where did the disease of life and death start from, can be understood from Sankhya philosophy. Man has always been suffering from this disease of bondage and also not. The bondage started when the first experiential brain was formed. It means that the soul came into existence then. But the prakriti on which the luminous sketch was made by the purusha, that prakriti is eternal. It means that the soul was in the form of prakriti since time immemorial.
It means that the soul was in bondage since time immemorial, but it is not so either, because prakriti is like a shadow which does not exist. Something that is eternal cannot have an end. I do not understand this thing written in many places in the scriptures which says that bondage is eternal, but it can end. This is impossible. Only that which has had a beginning can end. Perhaps they are right but we misunderstand. One of their purposes in saying this is to scare us with bondage and not make the mistake of considering it weak. The second purpose is to rule out the possibility that purusha can get into bondage at any time after liberation. If this were so, then people would not make much effort to eradicate bondage because they would have the fear of getting into bondage again. Perhaps what they mean by saying that bondage is eternal is that prakriti is eternal, not that the soul is eternal. Perhaps what they mean is that this tradition of bondage is eternal and does not end with a single man getting free. Besides, God cannot be so cruel that he has kept all living beings bound since time immemorial. The final purpose seems to be that people should avoid the hassle of esoteric philosophy and focus only on sadhana. By the way, it has been said in many places in the scriptures that a certain person has become or becomes free in just one human birth, someone else has to take ten births, someone else has to take a hundred etc. This means that the bondage started at some point of time and it is not eternal.
Actually prakriti exists and does not exist even. That is why it is called indescribable in the scriptures. The shadow of a tree is also indescribable. It seems existing because it’s visible, but in reality it does not exist. Meaning the bondage of a living being or a man is both eternal and not eternal either. Theoretically it is eternal but experientially it had its beginning. When the soul is formed then its merger in the purusha is only possible final event, otherwise it will keep wandering experiencing happiness and sorrow even though it is non-existent. It is surprising that how does the soul come into existence even though it does not exist? This is the game of prakriti-purusha. The soul is just an illusion. Meaning the soul is not created but an illusion is created. When the illusion ends then the bondage ends.
If prakriti is the land then the purusha is the tree. When the seed of a tree falls on the ground then it starts growing and by growing it becomes a tree. As the tree grows, the land becomes less visible and the tree becomes more visible. In the end the tree spreads so much that the land is not visible at all from the top of its clumps of leaves. It seems that both the land and the seed have become a tree. But in reality only the seed becomes a tree. The land remains the same as before. The land does not get destroyed or merged anywhere by a seed becoming a tree, but it remains the same to make other seeds trees. Similarly, there is Prakriti which is like virtual land even though it does not exist.
The land was at the bottom most. It wanted to touch the heights of the sky. If not the sky, at least up to the height of the tree. But it could not do this directly. So it took the help of the tree. It grew the seed of the tree and raised it high. Although the land could not rise high itself, it got the credit of raising the trees, which was enough to console it. Similarly, the shadow of the purusha, i.e. prakriti also wanted to become great like the purusha. It could not do this directly because the shadow of a tree can never become a tree and even can never merge with it. So it took the help of the seed of the purusha. It started growing the seed of the purusha, i.e. the soul and raised it as high as the purusha by awakening the Kundalini. Of course Prakriti herself could not become purusha, but she got the credit of uplifting the living souls, which was enough to give her solace. A mother is also almost like this, that is why Prakriti and earth both are also called Maa.
Demystifying Kundalini 