Excerpt from Studies in the Bhagavad Gita
Before we enter further into the subject of the qualifications for discipleship and the unification of the centres of consciousness in man, we must try to understand the nature and potentialities of these centres themselves, the centres which, as we have seen, unify harmoniously the experiences of different planes and form therefore the conditions of the manifesting life.
The three Logoi, the three Purushas, as they are called in the Hindu Shastras, are the manifestations of the One Self, and They may be regarded psychologically, in the language of metaphysics, as successive modifications in the One life of the Self. Esoterically viewed, They appeared as three distinct persons, and are regarded as separate. Let us try to consider Them from the standpoint of consciousness, and see if, thus viewed, They supply us with an analogy to understand the human centres. There are two ways of describing a thing, one from the standpoint of form and manifestation, and the other from the standpoint of the inner life; and according as the one or the other view preponderates, our conception of things also changes. It is only when we look to the formal element in things and ignore the underlying life that we are landed in differences.
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