indriya: (Sanskrit) "Agent, sense organ." The five agents of perception (jnanendriyas), hearing (shrotra), touch (tvak), sight (chakshus), taste (rasana) and smell (ghrana); and the five agents of action (karmendriyas), speech (vak), grasping, by means of the hands (pani), movement (pada), excretion (payu) and generation (upastha).

See: kosha, soul, tattva.

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Mahabhutas (Sanskrit) (from maha great + bhuta element from the verbal root bhu to be, become)

Great or primordial element; the gross or vehicular cosmic elements in contradistinction from the subtle or causative cosmic elements (tanmatras) out of which the mahabhutas are evolved. Five are enumerated exoterically -- aether, fire, air, water, and earth -- but in the esoteric enumeration there are seven, ten, or twelve. Also an adjective meaning being great, or relating to the gross elements.

The mahabhutas are so called because they are the karmic fruits or resultants from the preceding cosmic manvantara, so that even these great cosmic elements begin their evolutionary courses in the new cosmic manvantara at the exact point in development which they had acquired when the preceding pralaya began.

The tanmatras are the inner vital cosmic principles, the causal rudiments, which evolve forth the mahabhutas. The distinction between them may be seen by an analogy drawn from the human constitution: the difference between sense as a faculty or power and sense organ as the vehicle of the sense faculty.

The five senses hitherto developed in the human being -- hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell -- have their five corresponding sense organs, the senses producing through evolution and time their respective organs. Similarly on the cosmic scale, the tanmatras correspond to the senses in the human constitution, while the mahabhutas correspond to the sense organs in the human body.

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Tattwa (Sanskrit). Eternally existing " That "; also, the different principles in Nature, in their occult meaning. Tattwa Samasa is a work of Sankhya philosophy attributed to Kapila himself.

Also the abstract principles of existence or categories, physical and metaphysical. The subtle elements - five exoterically, seven in esoteric philosophy -  - which are correlative to the five and the seven senses on the physical plane ; the last two senses are as yet latent in man, but will be developed in the two last root-races.

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Senses. The ten organs of man. In the exoteric Pantheon and the allegories of the. East, these are the emanations of ten minor gods, the terrestrial Prajapati or " progenitors ". They are called in contradistinction to the five physical and the seven superphysical, the "elementary senses". In Occultism they are closely allied with various forces of nature, and with our inner organisms, called cells in physiology.

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VAHANAS

The five vehicles or animals that carry the Boddhic manifestations: Elephant (sense of touch), Peacock (sense of taste), Horse (sight). The Creator Buddha's beast is the Flying Dragon, i.e., creation by thunder (sound). Garuda (sense of smell) is a mythical bird who brings the elixir of immortality to Vishnu's mother, then is captured by the Nagas, which are the serpents of death.

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Indriya (Sanskrit) Power, force, especially with reference to the faculty of sense; sense itself, including the inner or astral organ of sense; also occasionally the number five as symbolic of the five senses.

The buddhi-indriyani or jnanendriyani are the five inner organs or faculties of perception: eye, ear, nose, tongue, and skin. To these are added the karmendriyani (organs of action): larynx, hand, foot, anus, and generative parts; between these ten organs and atman stands manas, which thus with the atman and the ten faculties and organs of sense, make twelve divisions of the human constitution. In Vedantic philosophy the four inner organic faculties (antar-indriyani) are manas, buddhi, ahamkara, and chitta.

Each of these fourteen faculties and organs is presided over by its own respective inyantri (ruler): the eye by the sun; the ear by the quarters of the world; the nose by the two Asvins; the tongue by Prachetas; the skin by the wind; the voice by fire; the hand by Indra; the foot by Vishnu; the anus by Mitra; the generative organs by Prajapati; manas by the moon; buddhi by Brahman; ahamkara by Siva; chitta by Vishnu as Achyuta. The differences in enumeration are to be accounted for by the different manners in which the various Indian philosophic schools enumerated and divided the different parts of the human constitution.

In the Puranas seven creations are enumerated, the third being called indriya, or organic evolution.

See also AINDRIYAKA

In yoga training restraint of the senses is termed indriya-samyama, while indriyasanga is nonattachment to objects of sense or of the material world.

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Pancha-krishtayas panca-krishtayas (Sanskrit) [from pancha five + krishti race of men]

The five races; referring to the five root-races of humanity which have thus far appeared during this fourth round on earth, our own being the fifth root-race. As krishti originally signified cultivated ground, then an inhabited land, and by extension its inhabitants, the term could likewise apply to continents; and in this sense the pancha-krishtayas would signify the five continental systems on which each of the five root-races found its respective home.

See also PANCHA-PRADISAH

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Panchabhutas pancabhutas (Sanskrit) [from pancha five + bhuta element]

The five elements -- prithivi (earth), apas (water), vayu (air), tejas or taijasa (fire), akasa (aether) -- in the exoteric classification, there being seven elements or mahabhutas in the esoteric reckoning. In the above sense, more properly called the panchamahabhutas (the five great elements).

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Aoai (Gnostic) Among the Peratae Gnostics, one of the ministers of Chozzar, equivalent to the Greek Poseidon; the other three ministers being Aou, Ouo, and Ouoab. The name of the fifth was kept secret and was in reality triple, thus making seven. These ministers in one sense correspond to the Hindu kumaras, whose number was variously four, five, or seven according to the meaning to be conveyed. Also comparable to the prachetasas (ministers of Varuna, the Hindu water deity), the five words of Brahma, and other groups of five (cf SD 2:578).

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According to Heather Child's Christian Symbols, Ancient and Modern (ISBN 0713519606), the pentagram is a symbol of the five senses. Also, when the letters S, A, L, V, and S are inscribed in the points, the pentagram is a symbol of health (Latin salūs). The symbol may also represent the five wounds of Christ. See also morning star. The pentagram also appeared as the design on the shield of Sir Gawain in the 14th Century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the poem the five lines of the star represent the five virtues ...

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SCRYING: A method of divination. To gaze at or into an object (a quartz crystal sphere, a pool of water, reflections, a candle flame) to still the conscious mind in order to contact the psychic mind. Scrying allows the scryer to become aware of events prior to their actual occurrence, as well as to perceive past or present events through other than the five senses.

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Biofeedback: Using a biofeedback machine, practitioners teach patients how to control and change such autonomic body functions as blood pressure, heart rate, circulation, digestion, and perspiration. Through monitoring “feedback” using auditory or visual cues, users extend their understanding of physiological functioning far past the normal five senses.

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Biofeedback: Using a biofeedback machine, practitioners teach patients how to control and change such autonomic body functions as blood pressure, heart rate, circulations, digestion and perspiration. Through monitoring "feedback" using auditory or visual cues, users extend their understanding of physiological functioning far past the normal five senses.

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Maya

1)    Unreality, illusion, prakriti

2)    The Hindu principle that all is an illusion and that ultimately the physical world, contacted through the conscious mind and the five senses, does not represent reality. This philosophy is also taught by A Course in Miracles.

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Jala (Sanskrit) Water; one of the five elements or states of prakriti. It comes forth from tejas (fire), and its specific quality or sense is gandha (smell).

See also APAS; BHUTA; ELEMENT (BCW 13:67)

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Clairvoyance

The paranormal ability to “see” psychic information, including historical or future events or other phenomena, that cannot be discerned naturally through the five material senses. Also called ESP or "Double Sight".

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

Knowledge of an experience or a response to an external event apart from the five senses. This experience can take place either in a wakeful or dream state. It encompasses most paranormal abilities such as telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance.

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indriya (indriya): Faculties; mental factors. In the suttas the term can refer either to the six sense media (ayatana) or to the five mental factors of saddha (conviction), viriya (persistence), sati (mindfulness), samadhi (concentration), and panna (discernment); see bodhi-pakkhiya-dhamma.

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Maya

1)    Unreality, illusion, prakriti

2)    The Hindu principle that all is an illusion and that ultimately the physical world, contacted through the conscious mind and the five senses, does not represent reality. This philosophy is also taught by A Course in Miracles.

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Ayatana (Sanskrit) (from a towards + the verbal root yat to rest in or on, make effort in or on)

A resting place, seat, or abode; an altar, place of the sacred fire; a sanctuary, inner or outer. In Buddhism, the six ayatanas (shadayatanas), enumerated as the five senses plus manas, are regarded as the inner seats or foci of the lower consciousness, functioning through the ordinary five sense organs plus the manasic organ in the body, the brain. They are therefore classed as one of the twelve nidanas (bonds, halters, links) composing the chain of causation or lower causes of existence.

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Asraya-alambana - the receptacle of love for Krsna, the bhaktas. This is an aspect of vibhava, one of the five essential ingredients of rasa (see vibhava). Although the word asraya also conveys the same meaning as asraya-alambana, it may often be used in the general sense of shelter or support. The word asraya-alambana, however, is specifically used to indicate the receptacle of prema as one of the necessary ingredients of rasa. It is not used in any other sense.

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"Ass" can be used in its literal sense to refer to the buttocks (see that article, also for synonyms in that sense), but it is most commonly employed to denote either a) an idiot or stupid person, as in: "Don't be such an ass! You're acting like you're five years old!", or pleonastically in "dumb ass", or b) as a short-hand for asshole, refering to an egoistic person who is acting to make others miserable; some of this usage derives from the alleged stupidity of the donkey. In British usage the word is not considered profane so much as coars ...

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