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The skin (tvak-tattva) – the organ of feeling, having touch (contact) as its object. Hearing, Feeling by Touch, Seeing, Tasting and Smelling are the Soul's Powers of Perceptual Knowledge and extensions of the Lower Mind, whereby the Soul experiences the multitude of sense perceptions that constitute the external World. [3]
Tanmatras (Sanskrit: तन्मात्र = tanmātra) are rudimentary, undifferentiated, subtle elements from which gross elements are produced. [1] There are five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell – and there are five tanmatras corresponding to those five sense perceptions and the five sense-organs.
The Nine Consciousness levels firstly consists of the five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell. [3]) One is aware of these five consciousness levels from the moment they are born, taking in information about the outside world. [3] The sixth consciousness is when one learns to understand what is being taken in from the five senses.
body and touch; mind [6] and mental objects [7] Buddhism and other Indian epistemologies [8] [9] identify six "senses" as opposed to the Western identification of five. In Buddhism, "mind" denotes an internal sense organ which interacts with sense objects that include sense impressions, feelings, perceptions and volition. [6] [10]
Extrasensory perception, or sixth sense, is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities. Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense. Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod. [10]
Persian and Kubrawi Sufi Najm al-Din Razi (1177–1256) proposed five "inner means of perception" (Qalb, Ruh, Sirr, Khafi, and Ikhfa) that parallel the five outer senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It's unclear to commentators whether these inner senses were already understood as lataif at that time. [54]
However, the soul does not bind itself to the body in its entirety; rather, it only partially does so. "Something of it", its highest "part", always remains in the spiritual world. The term part is used here in a figurative sense, not in the sense of a spatial division or a real divisibility; the soul forms an indissoluble unity. The highest ...
For the duration of the ecstasy the ecstatic is out of touch with ordinary life and is capable neither of communication with other people nor of undertaking normal actions. The experience can be brief in physical time, or it can go on for hours. Subjective perception of time, space or self may strongly change or disappear during ecstasy.