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299 THE BHAGAVAD GITA

THE MICROCOSMIC PRINCIPLES.

Mr. T. has thrown a new light on the study of the Bhagavad Gita by the very learned lectures delivered by him at the last anniversary of the Society. The publication of these in the Theosophist has afforded the opportunity to numerous students of philosophy to have something like a clear introduction to some of the teachings of the Vedanta. There are several points, however, which need some further elucidation before they become quite explicable to the reader, and as these difficulties have been felt by a large number of Theosophists and non-Theosophists, I shall try to state some of them as shortly as possible in the hope that Mr. Subba Row will be good enough to add some more information and thus make his notes as useful and instructive as possible.

Mr. Subba Row says:—"Now creation or evolution commenced by the intellectual energy of the Logos." Is the intellectual energy the same as the Light of the Logos? Again, "What springs up in the Logos at first is simply an image, a conception of what it is to be in the cosmos." Whence springs this image?

The four principles of the whole of the infinite cosmos are said to be—

1.The manifested solar system in all its principles and totality constituting the Sthula sarira.

2.The Light of the Logos, the Sukshma sarira.

3.The Logos which is the one germ from which the whole cosmos springs, and which contains the image of the universe, stands in the position of the Karana sarira.

4.Parabrahm.

The four principles of the manifested cosmos are enumerated as follows:—

1.Vishwanara or the basis of the objective world.