manas
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- manasic adjective
Etymology
Origin of manas
< Sanskrit: mind
Example Sentences
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It was the development of the lower manas that was the keynote of the selection; for the Fifth Root-Race was to show out that development of the lower manas.
From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood
It is atomic and its existence is proved by the fact that in spite of the existence of the senses there cannot be any knowledge unless manas is in touch with them.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
Mok@sa means complete cessation of pleasure and pain, arising through the association of the self with the manas, the sense, and sense-objects.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
In the eighth book it is said that soul and manas are not perceptible, and that in the apprehension of qualities, action, generality, and particularity perception is due to their contact with the thing.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
With each single connection of soul with manas we have a separate affection of the soul, and thus our intellectual experience is conducted in a series, one coming after another and not simultaneously.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
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