Aspect Of Consciousness Flashcards

(42 cards)

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Said to be passive and a experiential witness with no definable qualities
Beyond the realm of the fives senses and mind

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Jīvātman

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Mind conjugates with Jīvātman to form
Self Awareness and Awareness of being Self-Aware

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Citta
Consciousness
Individual expression of Mahat(Cosmic Consciousness)

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Jīvātman discerns through its active faculty

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Buddhi
Individualized intelligence

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Manifestation of Prakrti

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Mahat
Cosmic Consciousness
Inborn intelligence in every cell

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General ground of consciousness
Represents our conditioned consciousness with an imprint of all experiences and perceptions(Samskāras) that was have picked up through current and past lives(Vāsanās)

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Citta

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Decides whether a sensory impulse should go deeper into the Ātma

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Manas

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Perceives Senses
Full of desire and tries to constantly fulfill those desires.
Sensation Being
Rajasic In Nature

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Manas

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Manas travels through

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Rasa
Constituent fluid or juice of the body-plasma

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9
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Strongest points of which the soul believes itself to possess

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Ahamkāra
Ego

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10
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Operates through emotion to acquire sensations in the outer world
Rajasic in nature

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Ahamkara

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Controlling, dominating, and defensive when out of balance

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Ahamkara

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12
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Helps us to see oneness in many forms

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Ahamkara

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Helps us to become free of desires and disappointments and become one with absolute consciousness and bliss(sat cit ānanda)

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Buddhi

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14
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Three aspects of Buddhi

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Dhī
Dhrti
Smrti

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Dhī
Aspect of Buddhi

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Intelligence to make the right decision

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Dhrti
Aspect of Buddhi

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Strength of the mind to stay with a decision

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Smrti
Aspect of Buddhi

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Power of Recall and Memory

18
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Imprints on the Dhrti

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Illuminating, pure, and good. Leads to clarity and mental serenity

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Mobility, or activity. Makes a person active and energetic. Tense and willful

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Dark and restraining which obstructs and counteracts the tendency of Rajas to work and Sattva to heal

22
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Quality of intelligence, harmony, balance, and stability
Directing Inward and Upward
Awakening of Soul
Creates Peace, everlasting happiness, and contentment

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Quality of change, activity, stimulus, and turbulence
Motivation for action, ultimately to achieve power, control, and dominance
Directed Outward. Causes egoistic actions
Makes a person fulfill his desires which in the end causes pain and suffering

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Quality of darkness, inertia, obstruction, heaviness, ignorance, lack of awareness, excessive sleep.
Retards objects
Directs downwards and causes decay, death, and disintergration

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fearful, depressed, dull, miserable, and delusional
Tamasic Mind
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Egotistic, self-centered, greedy, angry, lustful, violent, anxious
Rajasic Mind
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Kind, Compassionate, loving, forgiving, truthful, intelligent, strong
Sattvic Mind
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Harmony, balance, clarity, purity so doesn’t cause disease
Sattvic Qualities
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Movement, action, turbulence Causes racing, restless, agitated mind, anxiety, stress, tension
Rajasic Mind
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Inertia, darkness, dullness, heaviness Causes depression, fear, nervousness
Tamasic Mind
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Inspired, enthusiastic, genuine, divine love and arts
Sattvic Vata
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Angry, resentful, jealous, controlling, and judgemental
Rajasic Pitta
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Self-isolating, lethargic, stubborn, and possessive
Tamasic Kapha
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Faith being the antidote to fear
Vata Living Sattvically
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Nurturing, and unconditionally loving
Sattvic Kapha
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Perceptive, clear view, leadership. Guides and spiritual teachers
Sattvic Pitta
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Nervous, Fearful, anxious, worrisome
Rajasic Vata
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Hateful, Violent, vindictive
Tamasic Pitta
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Intensively attached to pleasure, addictive, attached to things or objects
Rajasic Kapha
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Depressive, addictive, psychotic, and suicidal
Tamasic Vāta
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Compassion and abstaining from judgment
Pitta Living Sattvically
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Non materialisms and non attachement
Kapha Living Sattvically