Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.138

c16.138

**Tanmātras.** We shall now turn to the second order and series of experiences that emerge from the plane of the ego (*Ahaṁkāra*). Here the apprehension of the object ultimately resolves itself into a series of irreducible units. The concrete initial experience of colour or sound, for instance, no longer persists. This passes into a generalized awareness of each sense department, visual or auditory, gustatory, olfactory, or tactual. These are residua of sense-experiences which the Mind cannot completely assimilate by conscious manipulation. The world, therefore, appears to the self, on the one hand, as a system of mental objects, and, on the other hand, as a system of physical objects.