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Saptaparna - the seven fold man
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So this is one way of dividing the constitution of spiritual man, according to teosophical doctrine. it is a good starting point to clarify different abstract points. if anyone would want to discuss
the higher triad: 1. spirit (atman); 2. spiritual soul (buddhi); 3. mind (manas) the lower quaternary: 4. animal desires and passions (kama); 5. life or vital principle (prana); 6. astral body (linga-sharira); 7. physical body (sthula-sharira).
1. Atman The essential self, pure consciousness. The essential and radical power or faculty which gives us and every other entity its sentient consciousness of pure selfhood. 2. Buddhi The faculty or spiritual organ which manifests as intuition, understanding, judgement, discrimination. It is the inseparable veil or garment of atman. 3. Manas The centre or organ of the ego-consciousness in man and in any other quasi-selfconscious entity; the seat of the ‘I am I’. 4. Kama The organ or seat of the vital psycho-electric impulses, desires, aspirations, considered in their energic aspect, and therefore the driving force in the human constitution. As every principle is sevenfold, there is a divine and spiritual kama as well as a grossly emotional kama, with all intermediate stages. 5. Prana ‘Life’, or more accurately the electromagnetic veil or ‘electrical field’ manifesting in the individual as vitality. 6. Linga-sharira The astral model-body, slightly more ethereal than the physical body; the astral framework around which the physical body is built, atom for atom, and from which it develops as growth proceeds. 7. Sthula-sharira The physical body. Strictly speaking, it is not a real ‘principle’, but functions as the common ‘carrier’ of all the inner constitution during any lifetime on earth.
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