The Antahkarana.
by Benjamin Creme
Summary: A discussion of the "rainbow bridge" built by the man/woman in incarnation between the lower and higher self as part of personal spiritual evolution.
Antahkarana ― An invisible channel of light forming the bridge between the physical brain and the soul, built through meditation and service.
Antahkarana (also Antaskarana) Path or bridge between higher and lower mind, serving as a medium of communication between the two. Built through meditation / visualisation, service to humanity and study of occultism.
Man is thus therefore Spirit (Atmasvarupa), which is Saccidananda, Mind (Antahkarana) and body (Sthula-sharira). The two latter are forms of Shakti, that is, projections of the Creative Consciousness through and as its Maya.
of separatism and materialism that throw up walls and keep human beings from experiencing their own divinity, the need is at hand for preparing civilization for the externalization of the mysteries and the building of the planetary Antahkarana.
Thus wee have found within the limits of this cognition a triple division, making up the internal organ or Antahkarana--Manas, plus Buddhi, plus Ahamkara--and we can find no fourth. What is then Chitta?
In esoteric terms this state of awareness is called the antahkarana (Sanskrit for "inner organ of sense"). By accomplishing the stabilization of the antahkarana human beings can attune their intentions to the divine design.
The three together make up the "internal instrument," or antahkarana. For salvation, buddhi must attain the discriminative discernment between itself as unconscious matter, prahrti, ...
 See also: Spirit, World, Spiritual, Ritual, Self
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