PRAKRITI (Qudrat)
Literally: nature. It is equivalent to Arabic word ‘qudrat’.
Prakriti has also been used in the Samkhya system as Purusha and Prakriti (primal matter with three different innate qualities)
Guru Nanak has used the word qudrat in the sense of God’s Creative power.
All we see is qudrat (God’ Creative Power), all we hear is qudrat (God’ Creative Power); it is qudrat (God’ Creative Power) that we have fear, and the essence of happiness……..
(O! God) Everything is in Your qudrat (Creative Power); You (alone) are the Creator and the Doer (of everything). [Guru Granth Sahib, p. 464].
Bhagat Kabir too has used the word qudrat in the meaning of Maya:
O God, rajas, tamas and satva is all Your Maya.
(Guru Granth Sahib, p. 1123).
(Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer)