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| '''Prabhavāpyaya''' is a [[Sanskrit]] term formed by two words: ''prabhava'' (प्रभव) meaning "source" or "origin"; and ''apyaya'' (अप्यय) can be translated as "cessation" or "dissolution".<ref>[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/the-one-form-of-existence-prabhavapyaya-in-the-original-pura%E1%B9%87a-sa%E1%B9%83hita/ “The One Form of Existence”: prabhavāpyaya in the Original Purāṇa-saṃhitā] by David Reigle</ref> Thus, the compund term means "the orignal source and place of dissolution".
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| In [[Stanzas of Dzyan#Stanza I|Stanza I, verse 8]], [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] translates this term as "the One Form of Existence", that from which the cosmos originates and into which it dissolves back:
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| <blockquote>The tendency of modern thought is to recur to the archaic idea of a homogeneous basis for apparently widely different things—heterogeneity developed from homogeneity. . . . The Secret Doctrine carries this idea into the region of metaphysics and postulates a “One Form of Existence” as the basis and source of all things. But perhaps the phrase, the “One Form of Existence,” is not altogether correct. The [[Sanskrit]] word is Prabhavapyaya, “the place, or rather plane, whence emerges the origination, and into which is the resolution of all things,” says a commentator. . . . It is, in its secondary stage, the [[Svābhāvat|Svâbhâvat]] of the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] philosopher, the eternal cause and effect, omnipresent yet abstract, the self-existent plastic Essence and the root of all things, viewed in the same dual light as the [[Vedānta|Vedantin]] views his [[Parabrahman|Parabrahm]] and [[Mūlaprakṛti|Mulaprakriti]], the one under two aspects.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46.</ref></blockquote>
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| ==Online resources==
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| ===Articles===
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| *[http://theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Prabhavapyaya# Prabhavapyaya] at Theosopedia
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| *[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/the-one-form-of-existence-prabhavapyaya-in-the-original-pura%E1%B9%87a-sa%E1%B9%83hita/ “The One Form of Existence”: prabhavāpyaya in the Original Purāṇa-saṃhitā] by David Reigle
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| == Notes ==
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| <references/>
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| [[Category:Sanskrit terms]]
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| [[Category:Concepts in The Secret Doctrine]]
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