In Esotericism Saptaparna is the symbol of the “seven fold Man-Plant”. H.P. Blavatsky, defined man as a saptaparna, a seven-leafed plant. The seven principles are variously given in the theosophical literature, but recognizing the two highest principles as the universal Self or Ãtman and its spiritual soul or consciousness, Buddhi — these two in union constituting the Monad — we may narrow our definition to that which is essential for man to be truly man. The two higher principles can have no individuality on Earth, cannot be man, unless there is (a) the Mind, the Manas-Ego, to cognize itself, and (b) the terrestrial false Personality, or the Body of egotistical desires and personal Will, to cement the whole, as if round a pivot... to the physical form of man. Dr. Annie Besant : Man is that being in the universe, in whatever part of the universe he may be, in whom highest Spirit and lowest Matter are joined together by intelligence... Essentially, then, three factors are involved, with the focus on the mind, or, more properly, the entire psychological nature. Here at this central point, lies the central task which is the supreme opus of the human journey, the consciousing (to coin a word) of our godhood in the attainment of SELF-realization. Though there are seven principles in man, there are but three distinct (Bases), in each of which his Ãtma may work independently of the rest. Ãtma, or the universal consciousness, is localized through three Upadhis or bases. The word upadhi, from the verbal root dhi, which means to hold or to nourish, is generally translated as container or receptacle, but it also imposes limitation on and gives qualification to that which is held within, These three upadhis are given as: 1. Spiritual soul or Buddhi; causal body of ego, which is to act or cause action; 2. The mind, including Kãma rûpa, consciousness, together with volitions and feelings; connotation of the subtler principles relating to the psychological nature of man; 3.The dense physical with its etheric and prãnic aspects. The unique value of this system in the consideration of the specifically human journey becomes evident when we consider further that the esoteric philosophy explicitly states... that there exists in Nature a triple evolutionary scheme or rather three separate schemes of evolution, which in our system are inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point. These are the Monadic (or Spiritual), the Intellectual, and the Physical Evolution. from H.P.Blavatsky.
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