 Prakriti is not primal matter, nor the metaphysical universal, rather it is the basis of all objective existence, matter, life and mind.Prakriti has two dimensions, that which is "Vyakta" (manifest), and that which is "Avyakta" (unmanifest).Both have the three Guṇa that, states the text, is in continual tension with one another, and it is their mutual interaction on Prakriti that causes the emergence of the world as we know it.