Re: Theos-World Intellect and 'thinking Ego'
Jun 23, 2000 10:07 AM
by Andrew Basler
From: "Peter Merriott" <caduceus@dial.pipex.com>
"The mind is the great slayer of the real, let the disciple slay the
slayer"
But we may need to reflect on exactly what this means. Is it the ability
'to think' in its deepest sense that we are asked to destroy? I don't
believe it is. Rather it is the sense of 'seperateness' which is an aspect
of the lower Manas, rather Kama-Manas (the personality), that has to be
weeded out
How about 'temporary destroy'? It is not only the sense of 'separateness'
but mental processes including thinking activity, memory and others that the
mind signifies. It is the same chitta in the second sentence of Yoga Sutra
of Patanjali "Yoga Chittavritti Nirodha "-Yoga is inhibitions of the mental
processes. Patanjali (occult tradition hold that he was Govinda, Sankara's
guru) further clarified this mental processes as right knowledge (pramana),
illusion, logical construction(vikalpa), sleep and memory. All these which
is the lower Manas has to be slain or withdrawn in order that the *real*
becomes manifest. HPB told of the process "There comes a moment in the
highest meditation, when the Lower Manas is withdrawn into the Triad, which
thus becomes the Quaternary, the Tetraktys of Pythagoras...This withdrawal
of the Lower Manas from the Lower Quaternary, and the formation of the
Tetraktys, is the Turya state; it is entered on the Fourth Path." (IG 193)
This lower Manas is not permanently destroyed, or else the adept cannot
communicate his higher state to others or even maintain his ordinary life
after returning from Samadhi.
KH also reassured us of the possibility of gaining knowledge without using
analytical mind. "Believe me, there comes a moment in the life of an adept,
when the hardships he has passed through are a thousandfold rewarded. In
order to acquire further knowledge, he has no more to go through a minute
and slow process of investigation and comparison of various objects, but is
accorded an instantaneous, implicit insight into every first truth... the
adept sees and feels and lives in the very source of all fundamental
truths." (ML 31)
With the mind, all is at best relative truth, but without the strong mind
there is no possibility to attain absolute truth. It is fatal error to
dethrone the mind before the time is ripe, the mind itself will trick most
of those who make such an attempt into hypocrisy or worst,-insanity.
-Andrew
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