Book Title: Tattva Kaumudi
Author(s): Oriental Book Agency Poona
Publisher: Oriental Book Agency Poona

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________________ 78 TATTVA-KAUMUDI [XXVI1155 organs, as well as speech and other motor organs are able to operate on their respective objects only when influenced by the Mind. (155) The author next gives specific definition of the Mind-It is the observing principle” —That Mind defined is to say Mind is defined by observation; when a certain object has been just vaguely apprehended by a sense-organ as 'a thing', there follows the The reflecting. , definite cognition in the form ‘it is such and character of Mind explained such a thing, not that'; and it is this observing i. e., the perception of definite properties as belonging to the thing apprehended, -that is done through the Mind. This has been thus described by an ancient writer—“At first, one apprehends a certain object vaguely as a thing and then the mindful people observe-cognisemit definitely as belonging to a certain genus and possessing certain well-defined properties": -Again (says another writer) -"It is a well-known fact that on the first apprehending an object, the first idea that one has of it is that it is a thing, this idea being inderterminate and vague, like the idea in the Mind of the infant, the dumb and other people; after this the thing comes to be cognised as possessing certain properties and belonging to a certain genus; the cognition that observes and apprehends all this has also been regarded as senseperception"— This function of observing belongs to the Mind, and as it serves to differentiate the Mind from all other like and unlike things, it serves as its differentia. (156) Objection:-“Granted all this : But we have seen that the l•principle and the Will, Objection:-Why Why having distinct functions of their own, are h make Mind a sense when it has not classed among 'sense-organs'; in the distinct function on same manner, the Mind also, having a or of its own ? distinct function of its own, should not be classod among 'sense-organs.'

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