Hanuman's Deepening Perception of the One

Philaletheians UK · Mystic Verse and Insights Series · 2 pages

Two pages built on four lines of verse and a substantial editorial footnote which supplies the Sanskrit, the context and the references.

The verse is Hanuman's answer to Rama's question kastvam — who are you. It is given in three stages, each a different level of self-identification rather than three separate claims. When I think of myself as an embodied being, I am your servant; when I think of myself as an individual soul, I am part of you; but when I realise "I am Ātman," I am one with you — closing on the statement that this is his firm conviction. The footnote gives the Sanskrit in transliteration and identifies the lines as capturing what The Secret Doctrine calls the fundamental identity of all souls with the Universal Over-Soul, describing them as a picture of consciousness moving by long and effortful progression from plurality to singularity. A students' note is added which changes how the verse should be read: Hanuman was neither a human being nor a monkey, but one of the powers of the seventh principle of man, that principle being Rama — so that the exchange is between two aspects of one being rather than between a servant and his lord.

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