Sthula-Sharira
Sthula-Sharira (devanāgarī: स्थूलशरीर sthūla-śarīra) es una palabra sáskrita compuesta de sthūla ("densa, gruesa, sólida"), y śarīra ("cuerpo"). Se usa este término para referirse al cuerpo físico, que puede ser percibido a través de nuestros cinco sentidos.
Descripción General
Desde las primeras clasificaciones teosóficas de la constitución humana la sthula-sarira fue clasificada como el principio más denso y más inferior en el ser humano "compuesta totalmente de materia en su forma más densa y más tangible".[1] Según Helena Petrovna Blavatsky esta Rupa, o Sthula-Sarira "es el vehículo de todos los otros "principios" durante la vida".[2]
Aunque el cuerpo es un vehículo de consciencia, tiene su propia consciencia, elemental automática y actividad que le impide a la consciencia superior manifestarse en el plano físico:
Occultism tells us that every atom, like the monad of Leibnitz, is a little universe in itself; and that every organ and cell in the human body is endowed with a brain of its own, with memory, therefore, experience and discriminative powers. The idea of Universal Life composed of individual atomic lives is one of the oldest teachings of esoteric philosophy.[3]
We assert that the divine spark in man being one and identical in its essence with the Universal Spirit, our "spiritual Self" is practically omniscient, but that it cannot manifest its knowledge owing to the impediments of matter. Now the more these impediments are removed, in other words, the more the physical body is paralyzed, as to its own independent activity and consciousness, as in deep sleep or deep trance, or, again, in illness, the more fully can the inner Self manifest on this plane.[4]
Mme. Blavatsky, however, also talked about "the possibility of a complete control over the cells and atoms of his body by man",[5] an ability that is attained by means of the occult training.
- ↑ Fragmentos de la Verdad Oculta No. 1 en el Centro de Estudio Blavatsky
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, La Clave de la Teosofía (Londres: Editorial Teosófica, [1987]), 91.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 134.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, "The Key to Theosophy" (London: Theosophical Publishing House, [1987]), 29.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. XII (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1980), 134.