Manas

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Dear all,

 

Pranams

 

thanks again to everyone who helped me with the pramana issue. As I am in the

course of researching into the mind, I will be sending several questions about

its functions in the next days or weeks. The first:

 

In the course of studying Sri Sadajis discourses on the mind I came across one

of the functions of manas being described as " the mind is also the clearing

house for input from the senses and output through the organs of action, it can

be thought of as a receiving and dispatching clerk " .

 

Looking into the carriage analogy of Kathupanishad manas seems to not even

dispatch,

in fact, manas - being the reins - seems to be pretty useless, except in the

hands of the buddhi-driver. From that image it seems that body-manas is either

reigned by the senses or by the buddhi.

 

Which would mean that action occures either because of what the senses attempt

or of what the buddhi decides. Is this taking the analogy too far or are these

conclusions correct?

 

Om Shanti,

Sitara