antahkarana (Sanskrit: "inner conscience" or "the manifest mind") — the mental faculty of the sukshma-sharira (astral body), comprising intellect, instinct and ego. It consists of 1. manas (the mind), 2. chitta (the memory), 3. buddhi (the intellect) and 4. ahankara (the ego).
- manas — that part of the mind which receives impressions from the external word
- buddhi — the determining faculty
- ahańkāra — "I-maker," egoity
- chitta — the subconscious or that part of the mind in which are stored up impressions or images already perceived in the past
manas automatically registers the facts which the senses perceive. buddhi, on attending to such registration, discriminates, determines, and cognizes the object registered, which is set over and against the subjective self by ahańkāra. The function of chitta is chinta (contemplation), the faculty whereby the mind in its widest sense raises for itself the subject of its thought and dwells thereon. For whilst buddhi has but three moments in which it is born, exists, and dies, chitta endures.
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