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Theosophy in India April 1906

1906

These organs are threefold: (1) the organs of action the muscles and their ruling motor nerve-mechanism the channels of prilna everywhere; (2) the (outer) organs of knowledge the peripheral sense-organs and the central sensorium in the brain and the chakras in the subtle body; (3) the Antahkaran.a the inner organ of knowledge and action Manes the Raja of the Indriyas and the servant of the I [...] When we speak of a man's growth of the development of a Jivatmi we mean the unfolding of his latent life the overmastering of matter by the spirit through the expansion of the Saktis for the spirit by itself is 'perfect and 'the growth of the matter of the universe or of man's bodies is not the growth of the man. [...] This knowledge of the difference between the Self that is the subject and matter that is the object is true nine wisdom; the absence of this wisdom the constant lapse'into Adhyasa much more than the want of faculties is the obstacle to the acquisition of knowledge. [...] Will not the addition of the miyft of the astral plane the inhaling of the stupefying blossoms with a serpent coiled under every flower be a farther'obstruction in the path of wisdom ? Has the warning of the Giticharya about the prishipitim 'Achim the flowery words of the hunters after Svarga no meaning for us ? There.seems to exist an under-current of belief among Theosophists that Jivanmukta [...] The new phase that opens out to us in the Minylakopanishat is the idea of the seven tongues of fire described as seven feminine forces residing in fire the names of some of which in subsequent periods of the development of Indian thought are applied to the female deities of the Pnranas.
philosophy religion
Pages
36
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120106
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Life and Matter
67-73 M.J. view
The Value of Theosophy in the Hour of Death
74-77 Seeker view
Psychism in Human Evolution
78-82 S.A. view
The Temple of Triloknath
83-85 Hiranand Sastri view
A Critical Examination of the Dasopanishats and the Svetasvatara
85-90 S.S. Mitre view
Correspondence
91-91 unknown view
Questions and Answers
91-92 unknown view
Supplement to Theosophy in India
i-vi unknown view

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