30 August 2013 - QA 6

Gurudev, while expounding the Purushottam Yoga (The Yoga of the Supreme Being), Lord Krishna speaks about three Purushas or types of beings: Kshara, Akshara and the Uttam Purusha. Please throw some light on this.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Kshara means that which keeps on changing. The whole world and everything in it keeps on changing. So that which is constantly changing is a kind of Purusha (person or being).
Just observe within yourself, so many thoughts arise in your and so many feelings arise in you. Your body, your thoughts and your feelings, they all keep on changing constantly. Now that which does not change is what is called Akshara.
And the most subtle and fundamental Tattva (element) that is beyond these two modes is what we call as the Parama-purusha.