tktt: On Post-Mortem and Post-Natal Consciousness

“Enq:  But since you have just said that the fundamental laws of the after death state admit of no exceptions, how can this be?

 
Theo:  Nor do I say that it does admit of an exception. But the spiritual law of continuity applies only to things which are truly real. To one who has read and understood Mundakya Upanishad and Vedanta-Sara all this becomes very clear.

 
I will say more:  it is sufficient to understand what we mean by Buddhi and the duality of Manas to gain a clear perception why the materialist may fail to have a self-conscious survival after death.

 
Since Manas, in its lower aspect, is the seat of the terrestrial mind, it can, therefore, give only that perception of the Universe which is based on the evidence of that mind; it cannot give spiritual vision.

 
It is said in the Eastern school, that between Buddhi and Manas (the Ego), or Iswara and Pragna there is in reality no more difference than between a forest and its trees, a lake and its waters, as the Mundakya teaches.

(Iswara is the collective consciousness of the manifested deity, Brahma, i.e., the collective consciousness of the Host of Dhyan Chohans; and Pragna is their individual wisdom.)

One or hundreds of trees dead from loss of vitality, or uprooted, are yet incapable of preventing the forest from being still a forest.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky