Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.151

c16.151

These processes are well illustrated by Vāchaspati-Miśra as follows: The village headman collects taxes from the villagers, and delivers them over to the next higher authority, the Governor of the province, who hands them over to the Minister, and the Minister to the King. In a similar manner, the sense-organs, obtaining an immediate apprehension of external objects, passes the immediate impressions on to the Mind (*Manas*), and the Mind in its turn, reflecting on them, transmits them to *Ahaṁkāra* which appropriates them to itself by its unity of apperception and hands over these self-appropriated apperceived impressions of external objects to *Buddhi* which resolves what action is to be taken on them.