Life Surrendered 3

Principles constituting man:

Man’s intelligence, or mind, is not a simple faculty.

Yoga has minutely analyzed its physical, psychological, and spiritual components, defining it as a conglomerate of the

Ego principle (ahamkara), the agent and subjective doer and perceiver;

The consciousness or feeling and awareness (chitta);

The sense mind (manas) consisting of the enlivening power of the five senses of knowledge (smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing) and

The five senses of action, (locomotion, exercise of small skills, speech, elimination, and procreation); and discrimination (buddhi).

From these principles evolve the five life energies, the five fold function of prana responsible for empowering the performance of the crystallizing, assimilating, eliminating, metabolizing, and circulatory activities of the body.

Man is a highly complex aggregate of intelligent energies and consciousness, all of which derive their power from the soul and its source in the Cosmic consciousness of God (Cosmic consciousness, the Absolute, transcendental Spirit existing beyond creation; God the Father).

Trinity – When Spirit manifests creation, It becomes the Trinity: Father, Son, Holy Ghost, or Sat, Tat, Aum.

The Father (Sat) is God as the Creator excisting beyond creation (Cosmic Consciousness).

The Son (Tat) is God’s omnipresent intelligence in creation existing in creation (Christ Consciousness or Kutastha Chaitanya).

The Holy Ghost (Aum) is the vibratory power of God that objectifies and becomes creation.

Consciousness states:

In mortal consciousness man experiences three states:

Waking consciousness,

Sleeping consciousness, and

Dreaming consciousness, but he does NOT experience his soul, superconsciousness, and he does not experience God.

The Christ-man does.

As mortal man is conscious throughout his body, so the Christ-man is conscious throughout the universe, which he feels as his body.

Beyond the state of Christ consciousness is cosmic consciousness, the experience of oneness with God and His absolute consciousness beyond vibratory creation as well as with the Lord’s omnipresence manifesting in the phenomenal worlds.