Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.139

c16.139

At this stage, then, the self feels itself limited by generalized sensory data external to itself. This is probably analogous to Fichte's conception of the opposition between the Ego and the Non-Ego. In Fichte's philosophy, the Non-Ego is given in one block, as it were; in the Sāṁkhya, the Non-Ego is given divided into generalized sensory qualities, vision, sound, smell, taste, and touch (*tanmātrāṇi aviśeshāḥ*, *Kārikā*, 38). The sense of the external has divided itself as it were into these five basic qualities.