Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Sensation
The perception lesson defines a sensation as an internal mental conception occasioned by an external object or event acting upon sense organs, nerves and brain. It also quotes Bain's description of a mental impression or conscious state, placing the term between an outer occurrence and an inner experience. The next page distinguishes the different channels by which impressions arrive. Its example contrasts an eye receiving light with an ear responding to sound. These channels are then presented within the book's larger account of the mind using bodily instruments.
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The source account
LiteraryThe perception lesson defines a sensation as an internal mental conception occasioned by an external object or event acting upon sense organs, nerves and brain. It also quotes Bain's description of a mental impression or conscious state, placing the term between an outer occurrence and an inner experience.
The surrounding teaching
LiteraryThe next page distinguishes the different channels by which impressions arrive. Its example contrasts an eye receiving light with an ear responding to sound. These channels are then presented within the book's larger account of the mind using bodily instruments.
Reading the distinction
InterpretationThe entry concerns the source's account of becoming aware, rather than a divinatory feeling or a prediction. Its physiological vocabulary and spiritual framing belong to an early twentieth-century exposition; they are not a substitute for contemporary sensory science.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the supplied Raja Yoga or Mental Development edition attributed to Yogi Ramacharaka. Its spiritual and psychological models are historical teachings, not independent verification of their mechanisms or promised results.
Original passages
Source 1
Raja Yoga or Mental Development
A sensation is the internal, mental conceptionOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Raja Yoga or Mental Development; printed page 129
Short quotation transcribed from the supplied scan; source passage read in context.
- Edition
- IMJ-0204-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0204-E001-P0137
- Original scan leaf
- 138
- Recorded leaf number
- 138
- Current Reader position
- 135
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- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Raja Yoga or Mental Development
Each set of sensations is entirely differentOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Raja Yoga or Mental Development; printed page 130
Short quotation transcribed from the supplied scan; source passage read in context.
- Edition
- IMJ-0204-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0204-E001-P0138
- Original scan leaf
- 139
- Recorded leaf number
- 139
- Current Reader position
- 136
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Continue exploring
Instruments of the Mind
Raja Yoga presents sensory organs, brain and nerves as instruments used by the mind.
Shared source pageInternal Sensations
The source distinguishes feelings of one's own bodily condition from impressions referred to external objects.
Shared source pageSense Impressions
The book treats sensory impressions as material from which the mind forms thought.
Shared source pageLatent Senses
Raja Yoga claims that undeveloped higher senses may unfold beyond ordinary perception.