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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
संज्ञादिभेदकलनाकलितो बलीयांतत्पूर्व कोशमभिपूर्य विजृम्भते यः ॥ १६७ ॥
167. The organs' of knowledge together with the mind form the mental sheath,--the cause of the diversity of things, such as 'I' and 'mine.' It is powerful and endued with the faculty of creating differences of name, etc. It manifests itself as permeating the preceding, i.e., the vital sheath.
[1Organs &c.-The brain centres which control sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. See Sloka 92.]
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168. The mental sheath is the (sacrificial) fire which, fed with the fuel of numerous desires by the five sense-organs which serve as priests, and set ablaze by the sense-objects which act as the stream of oblations, brings about this phenomenal universe.
[The sacrificial fire confers on the Yajamâna, or the man who performs the sacrifice, the enjoyments of the heavenly spheres. So the mind also confers on the Jiva or individual soul the pleasures of the objective world.
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