Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.152

c16.152

It is only when the Mind renders, by its powers of assimilation and discrimination, definite and determinate the immediate and indeterminate apprehension of the sense-organs, that *Ahaṁkāra* can appropriate such apprehension to itself and transform the impersonal apprehension of the object into a personal experience suffused with egoism.