In Kapila-Āsuri Saṃvāda in Mahābhārata, it is said that– viriñco’bhimāninī aviveka īrṣyā kāmaḥ krodho lobho mado darpo ma makāraścaitānyahaṃkāraparyāyanāmāni bhavanti evamāha– ahaṃkartetyāhaṃkrtā sasṛje viśvamīśvaraḥ. tritīyamenaṃ puruṣamabhimānaguṇaṃ viduḥ. The significance of these śloka(s) uttered by Kapila lies in the notion that Brahmā, in the form of Viriñci is the tritīya tattva of prakṛti, one of whose […]

Regarding the number of human Indriya(s) and their functions all philosophical scriptures are of the same opinion. In Mahābhārata, it is at least hundred times mentioned that there are ten indriya(s), and the eleventh is mind. So it has become a common consensus that scholars know that five indriya(s) are the cause of cognition regading […]