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Any correlation between purusha being dismembered to create the world and the material world being food? Is the scenario of wild dogs devouring a deer and all the natural processes of life feeding upon life a reenactment of that original primal sacrifice in an inverted way🤔? I remember reading Upanishadic sages talking about everything in the world from physical to the spiritual processes being a sacrifice. Can we see even the world history from being isolated tribes dispersed throughout the globe to the global unit that is the earth today as reintegration of dismembered purusha through the wars and battles of history? Sri Aurobindo wrote a piece on kala purusha the devourer of legions and the opening of brihadaranyaka upanishad has the imagery of devouring of creatures the moment time came into being and western occultism has this image of chronus the father of time eating his own children. Sri Aurobindo also also mentions about agni being the flame of time and death and everything is his food. I know it’s a lengthy and complicated question but really want to get some clarity on the enigmatic Purusa sukta and how it’s broader implications operates in the cosmos

The sacrifice of the Purusha as described in the Purusha Sukta of the Rig Veda as well as the sacrifice of the Divine Mother as described in the Devi Suktam are an indication of the thread of oneness and the deep interconnectedness of all that seems separate. It means that the sense of separateness and the assertion of a separate life which leads to the devouring of other lives ends up by a rebound from All-life in a way that the eater eating himself is eaten. 

Yes annam refers to food as well as all this material existence which is constantly being devoured by Time and brought forth again. One of its practical implication is that no life can support itself in isolation or by excluding others. It is a reminder to serve as a corrective to our excess egoism. Secondly it means that the whole universe is being recreated at each moment and, if we will, we can take advantage of this and recreate ourselves each minute. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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