Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.191

c16.191

Further, the world of objects may be viewed in two ways. (*a*) We may think of it as a complex of sense-qualities, as a system built out of the combination of vision, sound, touch, smell, and taste. (*b*) We may think of it as a manifestation of independent realities. We have so far traced the course of the Psyche from the plane of sense-qualities to the inwardness of self-conscious life. We may also lead back from the realm of gross material realities (*mahābhūta*), through the subtler forms of material entities (*tanmātra*) to the self. (9) The latter appear as shadows of the material world in the form of generalized sensory phenomena (vishayavatī vā pravṛittirutpannā) [i, 35].