Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

PACCEKA-BUDDHAS OR PRATYEKA -BUDDHAS

A symbol of the primordial spiritual egos , or Divine monads , who have not yet descended to incarnate in the lower worlds.

"High above these four stages (of sainthood ) stand those perfect ones , I who have of themselves alone become partakers of the Buddhahood ' (Paccekabuddha ) ; they have won the knowledge that brings deliverance , not disciples of one of the holy , universal Buddhas , but of their own power , yet their perfection does not extend so far that they could preach it to the world. . . . 'In the whole universe ,' says Buddha , there is , except me only , no one who is equal to the Paccekabuddhas .'" - H. OLDENBERG , Buddha, pp . 321 , 322.

On the highest plane , atma , are the spiritual monads , " Sons of God," who in prior universes have become perfect and are now in unity with the manifesting Self. Those of them who have not already descended to gain experience in the lower life have full consciousness on their own plane of atma, but not on any plane below, for they have no lower nature and cannot express (preach ) their perfections to the lower worlds. But in the whole universe there there is none but the Higher Self equal to these other Selves, for essentially they are all one on the highest plane.

See Also

AGNISHVATTAS
ARHATS
BODHISATVAS
FRAVASHIS
MANASAPUTRAS
MARUTIS
MONAD OF LIFE
OCEAN
SON OF GOD
TRI-RATNA