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'''Mānasaputra''' is a combined [[Sanskrit]] term meaning the "mind-born" or "sons of mind" (from ''mānasa'' (मानस) "mind" + ''putra'' (पुत्र)"son").
 
In [[Hinduism]] it is said that at the beginning of the universe, [[Brahmā]] creates from his mind four sons, the [[Kumāras]], to help him with production of man. They are described as the first mind-born sons. However, they refuse his order to procreate and instead devoted themselves to worship God and to celibacy. Brahmā then proceeded to create from his mind another seven (sometimes ten) sons, the [[Prajāpati]]-s, who became the fathers of the human race. Since all these sons were born from his mind they are called "mānasaputras".
 
== In Theosophy ==
 
The term "mānasaputra" is used in different ways in the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature. On one hand, it refers to the [[Kumāras]] and [[Agniṣvāttas]] who incarnated in infant humanity to awaken its mind. The term is also used to refer to the human [[Ego#Higher_ego|Higher Egos]] before they incarnated during the [[Root-Race#Root-Race#Third_Root-Race|third Root-Race]]. [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H. P. Blavatsky]] wrote:
 
<blockquote>Manasaputra (Sans.) Lit., the "Sons of Mind" or mind-born Sons; a name given to our Higher Egos before they incarnated in mankind. In the ''exoteric'' though allegorical and symbolical Puranas (the sacred and ancient writings of Hindus), it is the title given to the mind-born Sons of Brahma, the ''Kumara''.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Key to Theosophy'' (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical Universtity Press, 1972), 347.</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>All our "Egos" are thinking and rational entities (Manasa-putras) who had lived, whether under human or other forms, in the precedent life-cycle (Manvantara), and whose Karma it was to incarnate in the man of this one.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Key to Theosophy'' (London: Theosophical Publishing House, [1987]), ??, fn.</ref></blockquote>
 
They are also referred to as Mānasa-Dhyānis:
 
<blockquote>Mânasa Dhyânis (Sk.). The highest Pitris in the Purânas; the Agnishwatthas, or Solar Ancestors of Man, those who made of Man a rational being, by incarnating in the senseless forms of semi-ethereal flesh of the men of the third race.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 203.</ref></blockquote>
 
Some Manasaputras are "the Sons of Wisdom who informed the mindless man, and endowed him with his mind (manas)."<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. II, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 608.</ref>
 
== See also ==
*[[Pitṛs|Pitris]]
*[[Kumāras]]
*[[Prajāpati]]
*[[Agniṣvātta]]
 
== Notes ==
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