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Samkhya Karika Class 36 03_15_2023.mp4
No full textThe recording mind (manas) is also considered a sense organ (indriya) as it possesses the nature of both [the organs of perception (jñānendriyas) and the organs of action (karmendriyas)]. It ponders, and it has properties common to the sense organs. Its manifoldness and its diverse external forms are both due to special modifications of the attributes
Samkhya Karika Class 47 07_05_2023.mp4
No full textThese (the ten external organs, plus manas, and ahaṁkāra), which are different modifications of the guṇas and characteristically different from one another, present [their respective objects] to buddhi for the purpose of the spirit, just as a lamp illuminates [all nearby objects
Samkhya Karika Class 28 01_04_2023.mp4
No full textFrom prakṛti (evolves) mahat; from that, ahaṁkāra (I-princi- ple); and from that comes the group of sixteen. From the five of this group of sixteen evolves the five gross elements
Samkhya Karika Class 42 05_03_2023.mp4
No full textThe [internal and external] organs (instruments) perform their respective functions incited by mutual impulse. Their sole motive is to fulfill the purpose of the spirit; by none other is an organ (instrument) made to act
Samkhya Karika Class 54 08_30_2023.mp4
No full textThe dispositions (virtue and the rest) are [of three kinds]: innate, previously acquired, and presently acquired. They are seen residing in the buddhi; the embryo and the other [effects of the dispositions] are seen in the body
Samkhya Karika Class 50 07_26_2023.mp4
No full textThere are three kinds of specific objects: subtle bodies, bodies born from mother and father, and the gross elements. Of these, the subtle bodies are lasting, while the bodies born from parents are perishable
Samkhya Karika Class 35 03_08_2023.mp4
No full textThe sense organs are known through and are called the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and skin. The organs of actions are performed through and are called the voice, hands, feet, and the organs of excretion and generation
Samkhya Karika Class 49 07_19_2023.mp4
No full textThe subtle elements (tanmātras) are non-specific. From these five [emerge] the five gross elements, which are recognized as specific, because they are [experienced as] calm, turbulent, and delusive
Samkhya Karika Class 43 05_11_2023.mp4
No full textOrgans are of thirteen kinds, having the functions of seizing, sustaining, and illuminating. Their objects are tenfold, i.e., the seized, the held, and the manifested