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tktt: On Post-Mortem and Post-Natal Consciousness

"Enq:  Then the personal man must always go on suffering blindly the Karmic penalties which the Ego has incurred?   Theo:  Not quite so. At the solemn moment of death every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant [...]

tktt: On Post-Mortem and Post-Natal Consciousness

"Enq:  But if my Ego can, after the destruction of my body, become plunged in a state of entire unconsciousness, then where can be the punishment for the sins of my past life?   Theo:  Our philosophy teaches that Karmic punishment reaches the Ego only in its next incarnation. After death it receives only the [...]

tktt: On Post-Mortem and Post-Natal Consciousness

"Enq:  But, as I understand it, Buddhi represents in this simile the forest, and Manas-taijasi the trees. Taijasi means the radiance in consequence of its union with Buddhi; i.e., Manas, the human soul, illuminated by the radiance of the divine soul. Therefore, Manas-taijasi may be described as radiant mind; the human reason lit by the [...]