प्रतीत्यबोधसमुत्पाद

Question  / प्रश्न 50

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What is the role of Consciousness?

चेतना की भूमिका / चरित्र और कार्य क्या है?

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प्रतीति The Appearance, and / और

प्रत्यय  The perception,

प्रतीत्य The Object of perception,

and / और, 

बुद्धि (The Thought / The Intellect)

प्रतीति The Appearance and / और, 

प्रत्यय The Perception,

प्रतीति Appearance and / और, 

प्रवृत्ति The Instinct,

प्रवृत्ति Instinct and / और, 

वृत्ति The Thought,

वृत्ति The Thought and और, 

बुद्धि The Intellect,

बुद्धि The Intellect and / और,

विकल्प The Option / Choice.

विकल्प The Option / Choice and और

संकल्प  The Determination.

संकल्प, विकल्प और निर्विकल्प बोध 

The Determination, Choice or Option, and The Choiceless Awareness.

विचार और बौद्धिक जानकारी

Thought and knowledge,

बौद्धिक जानकारी और स्मृति 

The Knowledge and the Memory.

स्मृति, बौद्धिक जानकारी और मन, 

Memory, Knowledge and the Mind.

मन और संवेदनगम्यता

Mind and the Feeling,

संवेदनगम्यता और अनुभूति 

Feeling and the Experience,

अनुभूति और अनुभवगम्यता

Experience and the Experiencing,

अनुभवगम्यता और इन्द्रिय-ज्ञान

Experiencing and the Sensitivity,

इन्द्रियाँ / इन्द्रिय-ज्ञान और जगत्, संसार या विश्व

Sensitivity, Senses and the World.

जगत्, संसार या विश्व और अहंकार या अहं-प्रतीति 

The World and the Ego / The I-sense.

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An Example :

There was a man living on the bank of the Narmada river. 

The rains had ended and there was the beginning of the winters.

The winds were cool and pleasant, and had begun to pinch a bit.

In the early morning he felt a shiver.

At once to him came a thought how to deal with the changing weather. This was  बुद्धि - a simple thought, that split his प्रतीति the perception into the  प्रतीत्य - the object of perception and the स्व / the "self", and at once this perception gave rise to the dichotomy between the self and the object perceived in the mind.

The mind itself assumed two forms and both appeared to have their own and independent existence.

The self, the subject of perception became the dominant and the other - the object of perception, - relatively less important.

The self assumed the form the doer, the experiencer, the enjoyer and the sufferer  - The one who appears to do / perform an activity, who goes through the experience, who enjoys and suffers, and the owner of the memory or the whole information. That is how the sense of being "I" the individual came in existence.

The sum total of all known happenings as events, either the experience, the feelings, the sentiments, the memory attached with this independent one, appeared as the observed while the one the predominant sense of being "I", - the "self" in the objective world, - other than the "self".

Then the drama started and the "self" became the victim of the ignorance and the illusion.

This very"self" is the "individual".

With the emergence of Thought, all this entire phenomenal world appeared in no time.

For Time is / was the Thought itself. 

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