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To restore the Brahmana boys, Sri Krishna went \vith Arjuna
to the abode of Purusha. Purusha smiled and said: "I brought the
Brahmana boys, that I might see you both. For the protection of
Dharma on the Earth, you have incarnated as my parts (Kala). Kill
the Asuras that oppress the Earth and come back soon to Ale. Satia-
ted are your own desires, O you Rishis, Nara and Narayana, but for
the preservation of the universe do that which others may follow."
The Purusha is the Virat Purusha of our universe, the Second
Purusha or the Second Logos.
When the first Purusha woke up, the process of transformation
went on and the material creation was completed. The materials
could not however unite to form individual bodies. Purusha infused
the material creation and became known as the Second Purusha or
Virat Purusha, As regards this Virat Purusha, the Bhagavata Purana
says as follows:
"He is the resting place and eternal seed of all Avataras.
Btahma is His part, Marichi and other Rishis are parts of His part.
Devas, animals and men are brought into manifestation by parts of
His part " Bhagavata I. 3-5.
"He is the primal, unborn Purusha, who in every Kalpa creates,
preserves and destroys self (objective) as self (nominative), in self
(locative), by self (instrumental)." II. 6 XXXVII.
"He is the primal Purusha Avatara of the Supreme " II. 6 XL.
He is also called the Thousand-Limbed and the Egg-born.
II. 5, XXXV., III. 6, VI.
This Virat Purusha upholds the manifested universe. All
materials are in Him and all individuals take their rise from Him and
end in Him. He is the one ocean of endless bubbles which have
their beginning and end in Him. The Avataras also all rest on the
bosom of Virat Purusha.
We have looked at Virat Purusha from the standpoint of the
First Purusha. Now let us proceed upwards from below.
The Brihat Aranayaka Upanishad thus speaks of Virat Puru-
sha, at the beginning of the Fourth Brahmana of the first chapter:
"This was before soul, bearing the shape of a man. Looking
round he beheld nothing but himself. He said first: "This am I."
Hence the name of I was produced. And, because he as the first of
all of them consumed by fire all the sins, therefore he is called Puru-
sha. He verily consumes him who, before this, strives to obtain the
state of Prajapati, he, namely who, thus knows."
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