--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Beyond the senses there are the objects, beyond the objects there is > mind, beyond the mind there is the intellect, the Infinite Mind (Mahat) > is beyond the > intellect. Beyond the Great (Mahat) is the Avyakta (the silent, > unmanifest), beyond the > Avyakta there is the Purusha. Beyond the Purusha there is nothing - > this is the > goal, the highest path" Katha Up. I.3.10-11.
Thanks for posting this! Based roughly on the Katha Upanishad, we can perhaps posit a general sketch of our divine anatomy as follows (the standard caveats apply that this is only a map): Crown = Purusha (Cosmic Person; supreme Self; Subtle Spirit) Brow = Avyakta (unmanifest; Middle Spirit) Throat = Mahat-Atman (great mind; individual Self; Dense Spirit) Heart = Buddhi (intuition; Subtle Soul) Solar Plexus = Ahamkara (human self; Middle Soul) Navel = Manas (mind; Dense Soul) Sex = Indriyas (senses/sense objects; Subtle Body) Base = Karmendriyas (organs of action; Middle Body) Feet = Prakriti (Divine Matter; Dense Body) >From this sketch, we could posit a standard ascent through 9 states of consciousness from Coma/Death (Feet), to Sleep (Base; mineral consciousness), to Dream (Sex; vegetable consciousness), to Waking (Navel; animal consciousness), to Transcendence (Solar Plexus, human consciousness), to Cosmic Consciousness (Heart, ancestor consciousness), to God Consciousness (Throat, deva/gandharva consciousness), to Unity Consciousness (Brow, Brahma consciousness) to Brahman (crown; Purusha). (Please note that this map is distorted in that each of these states actually enlivens the entire body/bodies.) However, as noted last year in conversations with OMG, I also rather like a model of the higher states of consciousness arising from the mutual attraction of Purusha (Spirit) and Prakriti (Divine Matter), and their gradual approach and mergence through the body's 9 chakras given above. From this model we could posit: Threshold or Transcendental Consciousness when we become aware of Purusha as being somewhere "above" us (in the crown) and Prakriti "below" us (at our feet); Birth or Cosmic Consciousness when Purusha moves down into our Brow as the consciousness of the pleroma or unmanifest Avyakta, and Prakriti moves up into our Base as divinely enlivened and automatic organs of action; the absolute Purusha now witnesses the relative Prakriti; Baptism or God Consciousness when Purusha moves down through our Throat as the vibrant bliss of devic/gandharvic Mahat-Atman and Prakriti moves up through our Sex as divine enlivenment of the senses; Transfiguration or Unity Consciousness when Purusha moves down through our Heart as the awakened pitris of Buddha and Prakriti moves up through our Navel as divinely enlivened Mind, culminating in perfect Unity when Purusha and Prakriti first touch at Solar Plexus � the human "I AM" or Ahamkara; Crucifixion or Brahman Consciousness when Purusha and Prakriti cross into each other for the first time, with Purusha reaching down into the Navel and Prakriti reaching up into the Heart; thus extinguishing the need for the intermediary Ahamkara; the small human ego and individual Soul now "dies," as there is no longer complete distinction between Spirit and Matter, absolute and relative, inner and outer, self and other; everywhere there is only THAT; Mastery or Krishna Consciousness when Purusha moves down through the Sex and Prakriti reaches up into the Throat, enlivening the realization that the immense emptiful void or THAT of Brahman can now collapse and manifest fully as and into the Atman or bliss-point (s) of individuality; Ascension or Shiva Consciousness when Purusha moves down through the Base and Prakriti reaches up through the Brow, eventually resulting in the complete mergence of Purusha and Prakriti, with each occupying the entire body: Absolute Spirit and Relative Matter are one and the same. Again, this is just a map, a rough sketch. It certainly doesn't account for everything or every experience. If any of it fits, enjoy; if not, throw it out. No strings attached! :-) Also, I am a little unclear on the Katha Upanishad's placement of the objects "above" or beyond the senses -- this seems to contradict the general flow from denser objectivity to subtler subjectivity, unless I am missing something. R. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
