In general, whatever activity carried out by a person, such as doing job-business, worshiping, reading scriptures, doing service to others etc., is considered purushartha. There are two kinds of purushartha: One is, that which is not visible through eyes, but it is going on inside, is called bhrant purushartha (illusory effort). What is the fruit of this purushartha? It is the sansar. And the other kind of Purushartha, which makes one free from sansar, is called real Purushartha; where one ‘sees’ the prakruti (non-Self complex) after becoming the Self (Purush). Until one attains Self-realization, due to the constant force of circumstances one feels that ‘I am this body’, through this sense of doer-ship, knowingly-unknowingly various kinds of inner bhaavs are being done.Lord has shown the purushartha of doing pratikraman. The one who really wants to become free from the worldly life and wants to go to moksha,will have to come from the relative purushartha to the real Purushartha.
