Comparative Study of Indian Science

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: C S Mallinath

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Manas has two parts or aspects viz., the Dravya-Manas and the Bhava-Manas. The Dravya-Manas or material mind is composed of a kind of extremely fine Matter called the Mano-vargana. Through the channel of the Dravya-Manas the gross matters of sense come up before the Soul when the Bhava-Manas through Labdhi and Upayoga attend to and assimilate it. The Mind thus makes perception possible by drawing Matter towards the Soul and drawing the Soul towards Matter. And it is capable of doing these because it partakes of the nature of both Soul and Maiter. ,
5. Paramarthika Pratyaksha
Pramana. Indian philosophers admitted the possibility of a supernatural way of perceiving things. Reference to such, transcendental perception is made in 88, 89 Vishayadhyaya, Sankhya Sutras and in .11, 14 and 15 of the Second Section of the 9th Chapter of the Vaiseshika Sutras. The present day theosophists and occultists of Europe not only regard such perceptions as possible but they attach importance and truth of supreme worth to their matter, although the positivist scientists as a rule regard clairvoyance and other phenomena of the Seance-Room as nothing but sheer impostures. According to the Jainas, "the Trans