Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00176)

Dallas wrote:

> Dear Mika:
> 
> The fact is that you and I and everyone else who is human and who
> THINKS is a "Manasaputra."  that is all that the statement means in
> the Hindu Philosophy and way of explaining the nature of that
> consciousness that wells up in all of us individually as the capacity
> to say I am myself:  Ego.

> Such things have a Source and this is the metaphysical way of trying
> to get us to see that the source of our own being is a power (however
> undefined) that gives us our identity.
> 
> It is still a different question ( unanswered so far) as to how we
> acquire a body, and that it is so marvelously made  that we have very
> little to do except to use it, whether for good or ill -- depends on
> our motivation.

OK, thanks for clarification. I can see it intellectually, now, but all I 
can really say that in me there is someone or something that 'says' 
'I'. Don`t know anything else about it.



mika 

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