This again corresponds to your
second principle, Jiva.
This power represents the universal life-principle which exists in
Nature. Its seat is the Anahatachakram (heart). It is a force or power
which constitutes what is called Jiva, or life. It is, as you say,
indestructible, and its activity is merely transferred at the time of
death to another set of atoms, to form another organism.
V. Brahma and Prakriti. This, in our Aryan philosophy, corresponds to
your fifth principle, called the physical intelligence. According to
our philosophers, this is the entity in which what is called mind has
its seat or basis. This is the most difficult principle of all to
explain, and the present discussion entirely turns upon the view we take
of it.
Now, what is mind? It is a mysterious something, which is considered to
be the seat of consciousness--of sensations, emotions, volitions, and
thoughts. Psychological analysis shows it to be apparently a congeries
of mental states, and possibilities of mental states, connected by what
is called memory, and considered to have a distinct existence apart from
any of its particular states or ideas.
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