[Advaita-l] The Quarters of Mind

[Sylvain]

In the Teachings of RAmana Maharshi, the Maharshi says the antaHkaraNa are five : jNana, manas, buddhi, chitta, ahamkAra. (see no 392).



Sylvain



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From: "jiva das" <jivadas3 at yahoo.ca>
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Subject: [Advaita-l] The Quarters of Mind


I thought that Shankara spoke of the Manas Mind as being divided into four parts consisting of Buddhi Intellect, Chittam Affectivity, Ahamkara Egoity, and fourthly Manas itself, containing the others] and he spoke of this as the quarters of a silver dollar [karpaNa]. Mind, as I understand this, contains its own three parts, as a sort of Spiral Trinity/Quadernity. 

I have been looking at a quote from my guru Bhagavan Shri Ramana Maharshi, which questions this. 

He suggests that Chittam is this triply-self-containing mental organ. 

Can one of you wise men add a thought here? 


jivadas
 
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