Purusha Suktham learning mode with repeat
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2024
- Special Learning Mode audio. Chanted by Srihari (age 13 at the time of recording) and his father Arun. Source vedicchants.webs.com
The Purusha Suktham is one of the most common and powerful Veda Mantras. It occurs in all the 4 Vedas. The Purusha in the title of the Purusha Sukta refers to the Parama Purusha, Purushottama, Narayana in his cosmic form as the Viraat Purusha (Vishwaroopa), the Supreme Being or Brahman. He was the source of all creation.
The first 3 sentences of the Purusha Suktham can be translated as follows: Thousand-headed is the Purusha, thousand-eyed and thousand-legged. Enveloping the earth from all sides. It thus describes this form of the Supreme Person as having countless heads, eyes, legs, manifested everywhere - meaning that the entire cosmos / universe is pervaded by Him.
The Purusha Suktham is also chanted at the time doing Abhishekham to the Lord with the holy water in the Kumbham or Kalasham (vessel) in which various deities have been invoked, and which has been sanctified by various Vedic Mantras.
As the Purusha Suktham is seen in all Vedas, it is cited as the essence of all Srutis by Veda Vyasa.
The Uttara Narayanam is the concluding portion of the Purusha Suktham itself. Uttara Narayanam begins with "Adbhyasambhoota pritivyai ..."