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Tattva 16 — The Mind (Manas)
The coordinating mind: it gathers the senses' input and turns it into coherent perception.
Manas is the processing mind — the faculty that takes the raw input of the senses, organizes it into recognizable perceptions, and shuttles attention from one thing to the next. It is the busy coordinator between the senses and the higher faculties of ego and intellect. Together with intellect (buddhi) and the I-maker (ahaṃkāra), manas completes the threefold 'inner instrument' of cognition.
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- Chāndogya UpaniṣadKuru-Pañcāla region · -700explains
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1,5.3↗explains
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