Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00265)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "W.Dallas TenBroeck" 
<dalval14@e...> wrote:

> THEOSOPHY has taught me to understand "myself." I do not mean the 
embodied
> Lower mind -- Kama-Manas, but within and above, superior to that is 
the
> immortal SELF -- the ATMA and its companion --Wisdom or Buddhi. 
> That is: the Higher Mind (Buddhi-Manas).
> 
> Noting else matters.


Dear Dallas:

Thank you so much for taking the trouble to reply. Your reply made me 
remember that, while in India, in the early 1990s, I came across this 
statement of the then Shankaracharya of Kancheepuram, deeply steeped 
into Advaita Vedanta:

"Self-knowledge is the longest journey to the nearest place."

If you can call a lost soul a brother then perhaps there is still 
hope for the world.

With warmest good wishes and gratitude,

Pedro