Man The Measure Of All Things
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By Sri Madhava Ashish and Sri Krishna Prem
'Man the measure of all things' is one of those books I've heard about for years, but never had the opportunity to read. Having read Blavatsky's magnum opus myself, I was not inclined to read this commentary. However, the second hand bookshop of the Dutch TS brought it into my hands recently and I was pleasantly surprised.
Few people combine insight and wisdom with an ability to write as Sri Madhava Ashish does. He has taken the notes made by Sri Krishna Prem on the subject and turned it into a spiritual master piece.
I can't find words to describe just how good I think this book is. It's not the easiest book you'll ever read, but compared to the Stanzas of Dzyan and Blavatsky's own commentary on them, it's an easy read.
Man The Measure Of All Things
Man, the Measure of All Things
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The real purpose of the ancient cosmogenies
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But what has the Self, the mysterious root of human consciousness, got to do with a cosmogony, an account of the origination of the material universe? Such a question can only arise when, as most of us do, we explicitly or implicitly draw distinctions between ourselves and the things (phenomena or sense experience) around us: things we desire or fear to possess; events we desire or fear will happen; qualities of mind or feeling that add to or subtract from our self-opinion; things we value as adding to our pleasure, power or importance (etc.) (pp. 17, 18)
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Fetching blurbs now... please stand byLove it! Great read.
Norman Simpson says:
If we can really rise up through the RINGS PASS NOT then it is a great book. Regards:Norman Simpson.
Posted November 08, 2010
mike tisdale says:
I've been interested in Theosophy for many years, and have read through this book at least four times, and I continue to be amazed at the depth of knowledge contained within. I believe the commentary does much to illumine the text of the stanzas, which are almost impossible to understand without commentaries on the deeper meanings. I think Krishna Prem has revealed much of the mystic meanings within the stanzas, and I consider him to be a true mystic who sees through the eyes of eternity.
Posted November 22, 2009
Sorry, not my cup of tea.
The essence of the essence
The ancient Cosmogonies and Creation Myths were, in effect, affirmations of the divine nature of all things, giving significance to human life and validity to the moral and social codes formulated on the patterns of what they represented man to be, or rather, what he should become. The Stanzas of Dzyan represent such an affirmation.
(p. 8)
Self in relation to the ALL
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This is where the problem of self meets the problem of matter. We have to find an integral understanding of all experience which will resolve the dilemma in the interdependence of conscious observer and content of experience. (p. 18)
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