Purusha Sukta (Sanskrit: पुरुषसूक्तम्, IAST: Puruṣasūktam) is a hymn in the Rigveda, dedicated to the Purusha, the “Cosmic Being”.[1][2] The hymn is also found in the three other Vedas but in slightly different forms.
The Purusha Sukta gives a description of the spiritual unity of the universe. It presents the nature of Purusha, or the cosmic being, as both immanent in the manifested world and yet transcendent to it. From this being, the Sukta holds, the original creative will (identified with Vishvakarma, Hiranyagarbha or Prajapati) proceeds which causes the projection of the universe in space and time. The Purusha Sukta, in the seventh verse, hints at the organic connectedness of the various classes of society.
