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== Higher manas == | == Higher manas == | ||
Also called Higher Ego (or simply the Ego), Reincarnating Ego, Inner Man,<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 156.</ref> Causal body,<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Key to Theosophy'', (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 174.</ref> Karana Sharira, or Nous. | Also called Higher Ego (or simply the Ego), Reincarnating Ego, Inner Man,<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 156.</ref> Causal body,<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Key to Theosophy'', (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 174.</ref> Karana Sharira, or Nous, it is frequently said to be working in conjuction with [[Buddhi]] as ''buddhi-manas''. | ||
== Lower manas == | == Lower manas == | ||
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Manas (devanāgarī: मनस्) is the Sanskrit word for "mind", from the root man, "to think". In Hinduism it is the recording faculty that receives impressions gathered by the sense from the outside world, coordinating sensory impressions before they are presented to the higher faculty of buddhi (the "intellect" in Hinduism). Manas is one of the four parts of the antahkarana (the "internal organ"), the other three parts being buddhi (the intellect), citta (the memory) and ahamkāra (the ego).
In Theosophy manas is the fifth principle in human beings. It was defined by H. P. Blavatsky as follows:
Manas (Sk.). Lit., “the mind”, the mental faculty which makes of man an intelligent and moral being, and distinguishes him from the mere animal; a synonym of Mahat. Esoterically, however, it means, when unqualified, the Higher EGO, or the sentient reincarnating Principle in man. When qualified it is called by Theosophists Buddhi-Manas or the Spiritual Soul in contradistinction to its human reflection—Kâma-Manas.[1]
General description
Self-Consciousness
The "fifth principle" in The Mahatma Letters
In The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, especially those before the publication of the Esoteric Buddhism, the phrase "fifth principle" often refers to the lower portion of manas rather than to the whole principle. This is because the Mahatmas were following Allan Octavian Hume's classification published in the the October 1881 issue of The Theosophist, where the author defines the fifth principle as "the animal or physical intelligence".
Higher manas
Also called Higher Ego (or simply the Ego), Reincarnating Ego, Inner Man,[2] Causal body,[3] Karana Sharira, or Nous, it is frequently said to be working in conjuction with Buddhi as buddhi-manas.
Lower manas
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 202.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 156.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Key to Theosophy, (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1987), 174.
Online resources
Articles
- Manas at Theosopedia
- Genius by H. P. Blavatsky
- Psychic and Noetic Action by H. P. Blavatsky
- The Extended Mind by Rupert Sheldrake
Audio
- A Mind to Embrace the Universe by Adam Warcup
Video
- The Extraordinary Nature of the Ordinary Mind by Joy Mills