Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00013)

<<Dear Jerry:
You are a Monad and so am I as I understand it -- at the root-base of our being,>>

OK

<<<But we both know that we are also a composite of many different things.>>

OK

<<So in one way we are a unit ATMA
But to manifest the ATMA needs many vehicles or sheaths. That's all i am trying to say.
BUDDHI is the closest of them. It is said to be pure primordial matter, and as such can only offer ATMA its purity as a reflection base, so to say. Thereafter (?) comes the MIND -- MANAS, and so on down the line.
Compris?
Dal>>>

Dallas, I am not sure what you mean here. I view the principles as general principles, not as things. buddhi is not primordial matter - which is prakriti - but rather the general principle of form. Here is how I see it:

atma - the principle of subjectivity
buddhi - the principle of objectivity
manas - the principle of conscious mentation
kama - the principle of desire

Thus I have a mind and you have a mind, both of which are individual manifestations of the general principle of manas. etc etc When you or I die, our minds will die too, but manas will keep on going. Principles are not born, nor do they die. But over time, they do evolve and change.

Is this different from your own view?

Jerry S.
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