Theme · 31 verses

Prakriti in the Bhagavad Gita

Prakriti is material nature, the source of body, mind and the three gunas; the Gita sets it apart from purusha, the conscious knower.

Prakriti is the entirety of manifest nature — everything that arises, changes, and passes. The Gita teaches that all you see, feel, and think emerges from prakriti. The purusha, the conscious witness, is distinct from it — and recognising that distinction is the beginning of freedom.