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SENSE ORGANS, OR FIVE ORGANS OF KNOWLEDGE
Symbolic of the soul's five means of perception
on the lower planes.
"To the brain as the central organ, and its two dependents the
sensible and the motor nerves, corresponds the relation of manas
(mind and conscious will) to the five jnána-indriyas, or organs of
knowledge (these are, following the order of the five elements to
which they correspond, hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell), and
the five karma-indriyas, or organs of action (speech, hands, feet,
and the organs of generation and excretion)." - DEUSSEN, Phil. of
Upanishads, p. 263.
This central manas is a symbol of the causal-body, the centre of the
soul's perceptive and active functionings. In their proper order the
sense organs given as eye, ear, skin, tongue and nose; or as sight,
hearing, touch, taste, and smell, are symbols of consciousness
(sight), intuition (hearing), mind (touch), desire (taste), and
sensation (smell). These correspond with the five elements (planes),
light, fire, air, water, earth, i.e. the planes atma, buddhi, manas,
astral, and physical, as will be seen.
The organs of action which produce karma are mental action (speech),
mental discipline (hands), progress (feet), production of higher
qualities (generation), and riddance of lower qualities (excretion).
"The jnâna-indryas convey the impressions of the senses to the manas,
which manufactures them into ideas (sankalpa). These ideas are then
formed into resolves (sankalpa) by the manas in its function as
conscious will,' and are carried into execution by the five
karmaindriyas." - Ibid.
The five organs of perception and knowledge convey as ideas the
experience of the ego during an incarnation, to the causal-body (manas);
then these ideas are sifted and readjusted to become motives to
action of a progressive order in the next incarnation of the ego.
"The soul lastly is further attended by the ethical substratum
(karma-ûsraya), which determines the character of the new body and
life. This ethical substratum is formed by the actions committed in
the course of each several life, and is therefore different for each
soul and for each life course." - Ibid., p. 265.
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