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Of both these views the Sutra disposes by declaring 'not so, on account of separate statement. For in the passage 'From him there is produced breath, mind, and all sense-organs, ether and air, &c, breath and air are mentioned as two separate things.
Other creatures, in other planets, no doubt have other sense-organs to absorb other vibratory ranges. Their life-experiences are so different from ours that we could not possibly grasp them, any more than a blind man could understand a painting. "Nor could those creatures understand human life. We are safe in our own little corner of the universe, comfortably sheltered in our vestments of clay.
If bodies transmitted to the sense-organs forms like themselves, these copies, which would evidently be corporeal, must, by their departure, diminish the mass of the body from which they came away, and also, because of their impenetrability, obstruct and interfere with one another, thus destroying the possibility of clear impressions.
I think that this is the correct view, and that the distinction between images and sensations can only be made by taking account of their causation. Sensations come through sense-organs, while images do not. We cannot have visual sensations in the dark, or with our eyes shut, but we can very well have visual images under these circumstances.
To this the Siddhantin replies, 'the pranas also originate in the same way as ether, and so on. Why? Up. Nor is it permissible to ascribe a different meaning to the texts which declare the origination of the sense-organs as we may do in the case of the texts declaring the origination of the soul.
On the former alternative the declaration of the Fires would only state that Brahman is the ruler of the elemental ether and of all delight depending on the sense-organs, and this would give no notion of Brahman's true nature; on the latter alternative the Fires would declare that unlimited delight constitutes Brahman's true nature.
The next Sutra declares that the body and the sense-organs of the Released are not necessarily created by the Released himself. In the absence of a body, as in the state of dream; that being possible.
A supraoesophageal ganglion has developed, and has been relieved of most of the direct control of the muscles. Very good sense-organs are also present. From this time on consciousness becomes clearer, and the brain is beginning to assert its right to at least know what is going on in the body, and to have something to say about it.
The astral body has no specialized sense-organs a fact which perhaps needs some explanation, since many students who are trying to comprehend its physiology seem to find it difficult to reconcile with the statements that have been made as to the perfect inter-penetration of the physical body by astral matter, the exact correspondence between the two vehicles, and the fact that every physical object has necessarily its astral counterpart.
Yet the science of evolution, in conjunction with the great advance of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the sense-organs, provides the one sound empirical basis of a natural psychology. In respect of the terminal expansions of the sensory nerves, we can distribute the human sense-organs in three groups, which correspond to three stages of development.
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