manas
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of manas
< Sanskrit: mind
Example Sentences
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Consciousness can only come to it through its connection with the sense organs and manas.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
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
If the manas is settled steadily in the self, it is the state of yoga when there is neither pleasure nor pain.
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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