What does this reversion of Prakrti to the Samyavastha mean? Does it mean
that Purusa and Prakrti have reverted to their original state and the valuable fruits of
the long evolutionary process are lost? No! The Purusa retains his Self-realization and
Prakrti retains the capacity to respond instantaneously to his consciousness and to
serve as an instrument of his will through the efficient and sensitive vehicles which
have been built up during the process of evolutionary development. But henceforth,
the Purusa is not bound by the vehicles as he was before the attainment of Kaivalya.
The vehicles on the different planes of manifestation may be retained or allowed to
dissolve but they always remain in their potential form, to spring forth into activity
whenever the Purusa wants to use them. He uses them as mere vehicles for his con-
sciousness without any self-identification and, therefore, without gathering any new
Karmas or Samskaras, and he is free to dissociate himself from them and retire into his
Real form whenever he so wills. The association between Purusa and Prakrti is now a
completely free and perfect association involving no bondage or compulsion for the
Purusa. He has destroyed Avidya and there are no Samskaras to keep him bound to the
world of manifestation as in the case of the ordinary Jivatma. The equilibrium of the
Gunas now evolved is so stable that they revert to it instantaneously and automatically
the moment Purusa withdraws his consciousness into himself. Not only is it perfectly
stable but it contains within it the potentiality of assuming instantaneously any combi-
nation that may be required for the expression of consciousness. The student should
also read in this connection what has been said in dealing with II-18.
- The process, corresponding to moments which become apprehensible at
the final end of transformation (of the Gunas), is Kramah.
This is one of the most important and interesting Sutras in this Section because
it throws some light on the nature of the manifested world and Time. In this Sutra we