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Haribhadra and Psychosynthesis
It is better to present our structure in the form as a chart below :
Supreme Consciousness (Caitanya)
Prakrīti (By inversion of a portion of infinite
energies in Supreme Consciousness)
Mahat (With three guņas of Rajas
Tamas and Sattva)
Ego (Principle of ego-Ahankāra)
Manas (Mind)
Five Senses
Five
Five organs of Work
ears
eyes touch
taste nose
Speech
Hands
Feet
organ of organ of urination excreta
Atoms of five subtle Matter
Earth
Water Fire
Wind Sky or ether
Conscious Life (Jiva)
Unconscious Matter
Evolution
Into Conscious Life Thus we accept Sankhya's analysis of Praksti with due modification only at the top and affirm by our logic and existential and experiental methodology that Supreme Consciousness alone stands at the top of all evolution and from that alone all devolution starts and no sooner there is devolution there is evolution and the cycle is complete. The analysis of Sankhya and its basic concept of subtle atoms and principle of ego and three gunas are proved scientifically valid and its subtlety become more known as research in psychosynthesis advances. It is an analysis as well as a synthesis of Praksti. It shows the way of involution as well as
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