Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.126

c16.126

The relation between the two. Purusha and Prakṛiti, is analogous to that between Form and Matter as conceived by Aristotle. Purusha, like God in Aristotle's system, is the "unmoved mover". Modern thought, too, has derived its theory of *Vitalism* from Aristotle's concept of *Entelechy*. The conception in all these systems is that the living organism is guided and co-ordinated by a principle which is not itself a part of the physical processes; it is the latent purpose that shapes the form and growth of the organism. The concept of Purusha is in a similar sense "the goal and destiny" of the world of nature that evolves and proliferates into manifoldness.