Purusha (was Full Moon and Snow) HS

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Thanks Linda.

 

You wrote:

>>>>The Purusha or cosmic man (part of standard Hindu philosophy and

cosmology deriving from the Sankhya system) is believed to consist of 16

parts 5 elements (air,earth, etc.), 5 organs of action (feet, hands,

etc.), 5 sense organs (taste, touch, etc.) with the mind being the 16th

through which all the others are correlated. >>>

 

My comment:

I am very much in favour of this approach, learned a lot from Aurobindo

Ghose about this (Purusha and Prakriti). I especially like the fact that

the mind (16th part) is as you say the 'correlator' not the 'regulator'.

That ties in with what I wrote about the brain and the mind being a data

collecting and tracking mechanism, fed by input from the organs, senses

and elements (the other 15).

Again, good for you Linda to bring this up, this deals with reality...

 

Reality... the environment in which real things play in real time.

 

(There is a technique in artificial intelligence that mimics the mind.

The mind can be seen as the conglomerate of pathways most travelled,

nodes mostly visited, or links most often updated. Once the addressing

frequency has reached a certain threshold, they contribute to 'mental'

contents, in humans mostly mental chatter: internal monologue or

dialogue, which is... too bad.)

 

Purusha, Prakriti... Don Juan Matus (Carlos Castaneda's) talked about

the tonal and nagual. In "Tales of Power" page 121 there is a lot on

this. Don Juan even scratched a figure in some ashes (page 98)... very

good stuff... I did a lot of work with that in 1974... Will write more

about that at some point.

 

top square = purusha = nagual = ananda = bliss

^

/ \

/ \

,/ ^ \, ^ = reason = chit = knowledge

'\ / \ /'

X X

,/ \ / \,

'\ v /' v = will = tapas = will

\ /

\ /

v

bottom square = prakriti = tonal = sat = existence

 

Hope the above comes out alright on your screen.

He drew 8 points interconnected with lines. It comes out looking like

two partially overlapping squares. The top square represents the nagual

(purusha), the bottom one represents the tonal (prakriti).

Two epicenters, the top one is 'reason', the bottom one 'will'.

Consider this diagram looking like the top and bottom squares of a cube.

 

Of course at self reintegration these two squares are too fully overlap

and disappear into each other, no astigmatism.

 

It is from this, at Aurobindo's urge, in 1975, that I started to include

Tapas into the Sat Chit Ananda triangle. Existence, Will, Knowledge,

Bliss.

 

Love,

Wim