The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 49 : The Manu - 1

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🌴 The Manu  - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Manus, Manvantaras, Manushyas 🌻

The Vedic scriptures describe that from time to time creation emerges from out of the background of infinite space as a big breath of Brahma, the Creator. The span of creation between emerging and merging is called a Day of Brahma in the Puranas. During this incredibly long day there are 14 Manus; they are called the mind-born children of Brahma. Each Manu rules over a huge period called “Manvantara” which covers the unimaginable duration of 72 Maha Yugas; and a Maha Yuga is 10 times the duration of a Kali Yuga or dark age. All these divisions pass through their unfoldment like the tender folds of a bud. And each tender fold brims with life, consciousness and the perfection of a group of souls.

Not all of the gigantic epochs of the Manvantaras belong to the physical plane of the earth, but also to the subtler planes of creation called the Lokas. The 14 Manus are considered a great unity, a soul taking umpteen births and illuminating the age. The present humanity is the fifth wave or race out of a cycle of Manvantaras ruled by the Manu Vaivasvata.

The 14 phases of the moon between new moon and full moon correspond to the 14 principles of the Manus. New moon represents the time of dissolution, and full moon the full light. The brightness of the 14 ascending and the 14 descending phases of the moon correspond to each other in reverse order: the first ascending phase of the moon equals the 14th descending phase; the second ascending phase of the moon equals the 13th descending phase. Vaivasvata Manu is the 7th Manu on the ascending arc of increasing light – the earth moves from matter to spirit.

The Manu is the principle of the cosmic mind in creation. He works on the cosmic, solar and planetary planes also including those in man. The prototype of the solar Manu is living on earth as a person and is called through various births as Vaivasvata Manu. Even today he exists in a physical body along with his group of co-workers. He is responsible for the moulds of the human body, so that the souls can incarnate correctly. Once he lived in South India and gave the content of the law of “Manu Smriti”. The teachings of the Manu, however, are different from the book composed by scholars in the name of Manu, with some distortions. His direct teachings are imparted by spiritual masters to disciples in all times.

The Manu incarnates the consciousness of the Manvantara, the divine mind. Our mind is a part of this big mind. In the Great Invocation we say, “From the point of Light within the Mind of God let Light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on earth.” This point of Light is the Manu. We say it every day but we don’t know it.

The principle of the Manu enables us to think; therefore in Sanskrit we are also called Manushyas, descendants of Manu. The word Manu is reflected in the English word “man”, which comprises the male and the female. It is also the root leading to the German word “Mensch”, the being endowed with mind (mens – Latin word for mind). Our being contains two parts: the material body, to which refers the English word “human”, being related to “humus”, meaning mud. In essence, however, we are thinking beings, endowed with Atma-Buddhi-Manas; as divine souls we come from above and have self-consciousness. The English word “mankind” refers to this; in spiritual terms it differs from “humanity” fundamentally and is the more appropriate expression.

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Master CVV Saturn Regulations / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Master CVV.

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