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He was the product in kinetic manasa of the three spiritual planes above him, precisely as the animal man was the product in kinetic prakriti of the three material planes above him. The latter was the "shadow" of the other. The animal man had a prakritic body, with energy, life and mind that were material. So far all was good.
Those that are possessed of knowledge say that both are to be called topics or principles. That Unmanifest becomes repeatedly modified for the purpose of creating the principle. When the principles become merged each into its progenitor, then the one that remains is Prakriti.
Freed from these attributes, He is again their enjoyer and endorser. Having created them Himself, He is above them all. Mind is a great creature, and it disappears into Unmanifest Prakriti. Unmanifest Prakriti, O Brahmana, disappears into inactive Purusha. There is nothing higher than Purusha which is Eternal.
'Whose form is light'; i.e. who is of supreme splendour, his form being a divine one of supreme excellence peculiar to him, and not consisting of the stuff of Prakriti. 'Whose purposes are true'; i.e. whose purposes realise themselves without any obstruction. 'To whom all works belong'; i.e. he of whom the whole world is the work; or he to whom all activities belong.
The sense seems to be that good men never allow others to know what their acts are. They are strangers to ostentation. The sense seems to be that the knowledge of one's own identity and of things as discriminated from one another is presided over by Prakriti. If the question is asked whence is the knowledge 'I am so, and that 'this is so, the answer is that it comes from Prakriti or Nature.
And, on the other hand, they also cannot belong to Prakriti, since they are attributes of intelligent beings. For by superimposition we understand the attribution, on the part of an intelligent being, of the qualities of one thing to another thing; and this is the doing of an intelligent being, and moreover a change.
This unity of the physical universe with the physical atom, and with all things created earth, animal, or crystal is the physical backbone of Oriental metaphysics. Prakriti, ether, prana, and manasa are in our vernacular the Earth, Air, Fire, and Water of the old philosophers the "Four Elements." The Oriental physics has been guarded most jealously.
It was the creative and destructive zone, the evolutionary "mother" the liquid level of the prakriti the seat of all physical phenomena. Fifty miles above, the masses of nitrogen and oxygen and argon were too cold to change their rate of vibration. Fifty miles below the surface of the earth all things were too hot for changes in vibration.
Casting off that sense of meum which I always have with respect to her and whose essence is made up of consciousness, and casting off Prakriti herself, I shall take refuge in Him who is auspicious. I shall be united with Him, and not with Prakriti which is inanimate. If I unite with Him, it will be productive of my benefit. I have no similarity of nature with Prakriti!"
These four conditions of matter prakriti, ether, prana, and manasa are the earth, water, fire, air of the Ancient Metaphysics, the four elements of matter, and are present in every atom of prakriti. When the atom of prana was formed, it had an envelope of manasa. When the atom of ether was formed it had an envelope of pranic-manasic atoms.
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