Passage 3

In English

Again, man alone is capable of awakening the serpent-power of the life-energy that lies dormant in him as the and elevate it through (higher fields of awareness), up to the thousand-spoked wheel on the very crest of the head. This is the (the Upward Path). This is possible for man, since he has a straight body and can sit with his trunk and head held in a straight vertical line. Quadrupeds and bipeds other than man are severely handicapped. They cannot tap the vital . The Samskrith word for Man means Ma (not), (new). That word intimates that man has had a series of births and deaths and is heavily laden with burdensome heritages of good and bad. He doesn't land on earth for the first time. His task is to discard this burden and become free. For that he must concentrate on another meaning of the word , where Ma stands for nescience, delusion and mistaken identity, stands for 'without' and stands for '' (Action). Man must act, speak and think without being deluded by the apparent, in preference to the real. Man ignores the (Divine Soul), which is the only Reality, and allows himself to be fascinated by (illusory energy), which scintillates and deceives. Since he has in him the Divine enshrined as the , man has the high status of an embodiment of the Divine, a (representative) of the Divine. The senses activised by the mind bring in experiences which are collected and coordinated by the mind. (intellect) illumined by the examines these and directs action along beneficial lines. Acting under the dictates of the mind brings disaster; acting under the instructions of the illumined is desirable. This is the great boon that man has won from God.