Guest guest Posted April 10, 2000 Report Share Posted April 10, 2000 We will take the present theme. What is this force which is now working through us ? We know how in old times, in all the ancient scriptures, this power, this manifestation of power, was thought to be a bright substance having the form of this body, and which remained even after this body fell. Later on, however, we find a higher idea coming-that this bright body did not represent the force. Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. If this body requires something which is not the body to manipulate it, the bright body, by the same necessity, will also require something other than itself to manipulate it. So, that something was called the soul, the Atman in Sanskrit. It was the Atman which through the bright body, as it were, worked on the gross body outside. The bright body is considered as the receptacle of the mind, and the Atman is beyond that. It is not the mind even; it works the mind, and through the mind the body. -- _________________________________ Check out The World Civilization Center, by Swami Nity-swarupa-ananda at: http://www.members.global2000.net./~sarada/WC/WCC1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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