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302 "It must be clearly borne in mind that this Karana sarira is primarily the result of the action of the light of the Logos, which is its life and energy, and which is farther its source of consciousness on that plan of Mulaprakriti, which we have called Sutratma and which is its physical basis."

The word Sutratma has been applied to Eshwara or the Logos. What then is meant by the plan of Mulaprakriti called Sutratma? The Logos is certainly not a plane of Mulaprakriti.

In rejecting the septenary classification and adopting the four-fold classification, it has been said that this latter classification divides man into so many entities as are capable of having separate existences, and these four principles are further associated with four Upadhis.

Now what are the four Upadhis of the four principles mentioned above?

The two principles, Karana sarira and Sukhshma sarira, are in no way more intelligible than the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th principles of the septenary classification. The description given of these two will have to be considerably amplified and brought home to the mind of the ordinary reader before the existence of these principles as separate entities is recognized. Under what principles are the human mind, the will, the emotions, passions, desires, intuitions, &c., to be classified, and by what means or in what way are these two principles to be known as separately existing entities in man; Again, as to the 4th principle called the light of the Logos, does it simply show itself as the Karana sarira, or besides acting as the Karana sarira does it separately act as a 4th principle, and what function does it then fulfil and how is it to be recognized? According to this classification the Logos does not form one of the human principle but is something higher towards which the human monad must ultimately go. In the cosmic principles as well as in those