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when it is generated by the mind alone endowed with a particular kind of purity. Senses :
The senses are touch, taste, smell, sight and ear having respectively for their characteristic the capacity of apprehending touch, taste, odour, coloured shape and sound. Each of these again is of two kinds: physical and psychical. The physical sense is of material atoms possessed of definite shape like ear, eye etc. The psychical sense is of two kinds : Attainment (labdhi) and conscious activity (upayoga). Attainment means acquisition of the capacity of manifestation of the sense-activity. Conscious activity is a particular modification of the self due to attainment." Mind :
The mind is the organ of apprehension of all the objects of all the senses. All the objects of our senses are apprehended by the mind and so it is called the organ of apprehension of all the objects.
The mind is also of two kinds : physical and psychical. The physical mind is nothing but the matter transformed into it. The psychical mind is the conscious activity.
An objection is raised here that the statement about the empirical perception 'it is conditioned by the senses and mind' is inadequate. Thus, for example, visual cognition has for its additional conditions the presence of object and light. In answer to this, it is said : 'The object and light are not the conditions of cognition, because of the lack of concomitance in difference (vyatireka) between the two. The meaning is that the external
1. Sparśarasagandharūpaśabdagrahanalaksanani sparśanarasana
ghrāņacakṣuḥśrotrāṇindriyāņi dravyabhāvabhedāni. Dravyendriyam niyatākäräh pudgalāh. Bhāvendriyaṁ labdhyupayogau
— Pramāna-mimaṁsā, 1. 2. 21-23. 2. Sarvārthagrahaņaṁ manaḥ --- Ibid., 1. 2. 24. 3. Narthålokau jñanasya nimittamavyatirekat - Pramana
mīmāṁsā, 1. 2. 25.
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