Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00430)

Jerry wrote:

> >><< The Ego or Individuality
> >> only lasts for one manvantara. >>
> >>
> >>According to my watch, that's a long
> >>time !
> >>
> >
> >
> >Time is relative. The point is, it is NOT eternal.
> >
> >Jerry S.

Tony wrote:

> Are we certain that the Ego or Individuality only lasts for one
> manvantara?
> Why should it not be in the following Manvantara?  And where is it when
> there is a Pralaya?  It may be dormant.    What do we really know about
> Eternity (virtually nothing?), and how can or does it relate to
> Manvantaras and Pralayas?


SD, II, 79/80:

"The human *Ego* is neither Atman nor Buddhi, but the higher *Manas*:  the
intellectual fruition and the efflorescence of the intellectual
self-conscious *Egotism* in the higher spiritual sense.  The ancient works
refer to it as *Karana Sarira* on the plane of *Sutratma*, which is the
golden thread on which, like beads, the various personalities of this higher
*Ego* are strung.  If the reader were told, as in in the *semi-esoteric*
allegories, that these Beings were returning Nirvanees, from preceding
*Maha-Manvantaras* - ages of incalculable duration which have rolled away in
the Eternity, a still more incalculable time ago - he would hardly
understand the text correctly; while some Vedantins might say:  "This is not
so; the Nirvanee can never return"; which is true during the Manvantara he
belongs to, and erroneous where Eternity is concerned.  For it is said in
the Sacred Slokas:

*The thread of radiance which is imperishable and dissolves only in Nirvana,
re-emerges from it in its integrity on the day when the Great Law calls all
things back into action. . . .*"

Best,
Paul