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Re: Theos-World RE: Evolution and the Nature of Atman and Buddhi

Apr 15, 2004 06:45 AM
by Ali Hassan


From: Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: Evolution and the Nature of Atman and Buddhi
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:56:16 -0700 (PDT)



Only when the mind is free of desire to achieve
something to get a result, consequently free of fear
can reach a complete state of quietness and silence.
Only them it’s possible to access what Plato says as
the eternal and abstract ideals. But for the mind to
be free of desire has to be identified with it’s
higher principles.

“Thus assuredly Sense-Perception,
Discursive-Reasoning; and all our ordinary mentation
are foreign to the Soul: for sensation is a receiving-
whether of an Ideal-Form or of an impassive body- and
reasoning and all ordinary mental action deal with
sensation.” Plotinus

How to be unidentified with the senses of perception?
Through meditation? If the process of meditation is
moved by desire to achieve such stage, the very
process is condemned before even to begin. So which
inner movement would make possible the higher
principles to be reflected through the lower?

Plotinus mentions that the first virtue that one has
to develop is purification. Purification in which
level? Apparently in the discourse of Plotinus, the
purification of the mind, that would be reflected into
the emotions and consequently reflected as well in the
physical body as a consequence of self control and
self knowledge.

There is an obvious blending between body, emotion and
mind we could see it technically as separate elements.
In this sense the body the emotions and the thoughts
are no more than facets of the sense perceptions that
one acquires into life.

But if the higher principles are pure as Plato,
Plotinus and Blavatsky mentioned, and within it
contains all the wisdom and it’s united with the
eternal what is the purpose of the manifestation of
life in the physical plane?
heh heh heh.

That question may constitute one of the human
tragedies because there is no answer.
You speak for whom beside yourself?

What is the purpose of the manifestation of life in
the world of form? Some theosophists are going easy to
give an answer, EVOLUTION!

So what would be the nature of Atma and Buddhi?

Erica Letzerich
People can presume to give you answers to that to feed your intellect all day long. At the end of the day, has anything changed for you? It is each seeker's quest and mission and responsibility to answer that for themselves. If you want the serious answers to life and death, is it as serious as life and death to you?
For me, the nature of Atma is freedom indescribable, and that of Buddhi is the key (given by Atma) to the lock that keeps us chained here in the lower forms. Hope you find it.

regards-

Ali

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