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METAPHYSICS
are but our sensations spatially projected, you will have no difficulty in comprehending the position of Kapila. We shall compare the Sankhyan order of evolution side by side with the manner in which Kapila appears to have understood an awakening mind to perceive the world.
The Awakening Mind, World.process or Evolution, (1) Alternation of waking (1). Alternation of evoluand sleeping.
tion and involution, (2) In deep-sleep the ego 1 (2) In involution (pralais not destroyed, but ya) purushe is not des. there is nothing to per
troyed, but the world. ceive.
performance bas stopped so that there is nothing to perceive.
to perceive (3) In awakening, intelli- (3) In evolution, Intelgence or intellect is lect (mahnt) is produced roused first of all,
first of all. (4) From Intellect arises l (4) Mahnt is then trans
"l-ness" (ahamkara). formed into (nhamkara). (5) From the sense of (5) From ahamkarır the "I-ness" flow the functions manos, the five senses, of"I" -manas (attention and the five kinds of or mind), the senses and organs of action, hands, motor faculties.
feet and like are formed, (6) Sensations are then (6) The ahamkára is felt.
transformed into sensa. tions, i. e., sound, touch, colour, flavour and smell,
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