Man is not pure Self in Yoga Teachings
Man is not pure Self, pure consciousness, Samvid. That is an abstraction. In the concrete universe there are always the Self and His sheaths, however tenuous the latter may be, so that a unit of consciousness is inseparable from matter, and a Jivatma, or Monad, is invariably consciousness plus matter.
In order that this may come out clearly, two terms are used in Yoga as constituting man Prana and Pradhana, life-breath and matter.
Prana is not only the life-breath of the body, but the totality of the life forces of the universe or, in other words, the life-side of the universe.
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