Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00140)

>>How, then, can BUDDHI be "imagination," as that is a faculty of the
mind principle, as a result of its union with Kama ?
"Imagination" can be very selfish, whereas the essential
qualification of BUDDHI is its UNIVERSALITY  and TOTAL
UNSELFISHNESS,  It represents, as I understand it, the excellence of
creativity only.>>

Dallas, I did not say that Buddhi is imagination. I said that
imagination, our ability to imagine or create images, is
in buddhi. And intuition or insight is there also. Manas is 
mostly the thinking process.  

I often like to think of this in the Jungian sense of
thinking (manas), feeling (kama), intution (buddhi),
and sensation (lower principles acting together). 

Our human ability to imagine and to form images
is neither selfish or unselfish per se. 


>>There is of course the AKASA the universal and impersonal medium which
is sensitive and eternally records all events, thoughts, feelings of all
beings in evolution -- it is the area where the string of any particular
"Karma" can be traced from start to
finish.>>

Yes, akasa refers to the objective "material" of the inner
planes while the buddhi-manas-kama or human psyche
is its subjective counterpart.

Jerry S
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                   

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