Month: March 2026

We have both external and internal senses. Whatever is experienced through the senses creates an impression, or a saṁskāra, in the heart (citta). Cognition is of two types, namely fresh (anubhavātmaka) and recollective (smaraṇātmaka). Fresh experience comes from direct perception (pratyakṣa), inference (anumāna), or sound (śabda). Recollective experience arises from the saṁskāras stored in the citta. When a saṁskāra flashes into…

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