_"Brahma Purusha in the openings of the heart."_ The heart is called the
abode of Brahma. There are five openings of this abode of Brahma and
there are five gate-keepers. These gate-keepers or _dvara-palas_ are the
five Pranas. They are called Brahma Purushas as they pertain to Brahma.
As long as the king is in the heart, the doorkeepers remain in the body.
These door-keepers being inevitable accompaniments of Brahma in the
heart, are also themselves the outer aspects of Brahma.
(iii.) -- _The manifestation as Atma which is triune._ What is a man but
a bundle of experiences on the planes of Jagrat, Svapna and Sushupti.
Each of these experiences has a threefold aspect or in Vedantic
expression is a Triputi. These aspects are:
1) the object experienced or Adhibhuta,
2) the experience itself or Adhyatma,
3) and the Deva which gives the consciousness of that experience or
Adhidaiva.
In material expression, the object outside is Adhibhuta. The reception
of its image is Adhyatma. The light that shews the image to be what it
is, is Adhidaiva. As we have said, each experience is a three-sided
triangle. All the triangles in the Jagrat state, analysed by the
Vedantins into fourteen, are represented by the first letter _a_ in
Pranava. All the triangles or Triputis in the dream state are
represented by the second letter _u_. In Taraka Brahma Yoga, _a_ is
merged in contemplation into _u_, and _u_ is merged into _ma_. In _ma_
there is only one triangle, which is the primary triangle to which all
other triangles in _a_ and _u_ may be reduced. The Adhibhuta side of
this triangle is _ananda_ by the _vritti_ of Avidya. The Adhyatma side
is the _vritti_ of Avidya. The Adhidaiva side is Ishvara. Life in
Triloki is conditioned by this triangle. The object of Taraka Brahma
Yoga is to cross the Triptiti, to cross the three letters of Pranava. It
is only in the fourth _pada_ of Pranava that he finds his resting place,
that pada being situated beyond the Triloki.
The three manifestations of the Third Purusha in Jivas or individuals,
may be said to relate to their different stages of evolution. Thus Prana
manifests itself only in the lower life kingdoms, the minerals and
vegetables. The Prana or life process is more elaborate in the
vegetables than in the minerals. Purusha then manifests itself in the
senses and emotions in the Animal kingdom and in intellect in the lower
human kingdom the manifestation being three fold.
The last manifestation of Purusha, the one-fold manifestation in the
heart, is in higher man.