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  • noun the mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals

Etymologies

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From Sanskrit मनस् (manas, "mind").

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Examples

  • XIII, 5); 'ten are the vaikârika beings, the manas is the eleventh,' and others.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • "lower manas" rather than "manas"; because the full development of the mânasic principle in man is reserved for the Fifth Round, and not for the Fourth, and we, of course, are still in the Fourth Round.

    London Lectures of 1907 Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • For instance, Buddhism has been exploring the world of the collective subconscious through the notions of manas-vijñāna (the seventh consciousness) and ālaya-vijñāna (the eighth consciousness) for several thousand years.

    Hiroshi Tasaka: 3 Strategies for Fusing Science and Spirituality Hiroshi Tasaka 2010

  • For instance, Buddhism has been exploring the world of the collective subconscious through the notions of manas-vijñāna (the seventh consciousness) and ālaya-vijñāna (the eighth consciousness) for several thousand years.

    Hiroshi Tasaka: 3 Strategies for Fusing Science and Spirituality Hiroshi Tasaka 2010

  • For instance, Buddhism has been exploring the world of the collective subconscious through the notions of manas-vijñāna (the seventh consciousness) and ālaya-vijñāna (the eighth consciousness) for several thousand years.

    Hiroshi Tasaka: 3 Strategies for Fusing Science and Spirituality Hiroshi Tasaka 2010

  • For instance, Buddhism has been exploring the world of the collective subconscious through the notions of manas-vijñāna (the seventh consciousness) and ālaya-vijñāna (the eighth consciousness) for several thousand years.

    Hiroshi Tasaka: 3 Strategies for Fusing Science and Spirituality Hiroshi Tasaka 2010

  • For instance, Buddhism has been exploring the world of the collective subconscious through the notions of manas-vijñāna (the seventh consciousness) and ālaya-vijñāna (the eighth consciousness) for several thousand years.

    Hiroshi Tasaka: 3 Strategies for Fusing Science and Spirituality Hiroshi Tasaka 2010

  • And if a man loves another manas long as I get videos....why should he forfeit spousal benefits,pensions,etc that a female spouse would automaticallly be entitled to?

    [truth] and how to lose a contest for speaking it 2009

  • Gaṅgeśa criticises Principle 1 on three grounds: (a) it entails that every awareness is perceptual since every awareness is produced by the instrumentality of the ˜inner™ sense faculty or manas; (b) it fails to include divine perception, which involves no sensory connection; and (c) there is no one type of sensory connection, nor anything obviously in common to the ad hoc list of six types.

    Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009

  • This is a convenient place at which to introduce the last of the nine substances, the ˜mind™ (manas).

    Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009

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