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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.
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses [1] were traditionally identified as such (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), many more are now recognized. [2]
Gyanendriya is the organ of perception, the faculty of perceiving through the senses. The first five of the seventeen elements of the subtle body are the "organs of perception" or "sense organs". [2] According to Hinduism and Vaishnavism there are five gyanendriya or "sense organs" – ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose. [2]
Five senses refers to the five traditionally recognized methods of perception, or senses: taste, sight, touch, smell, and sound. Five senses or The Five Senses may also refer to: Five wits, a categorisation scheme originating in Shakespearean times; 5 Senses, a 1981 EP by XTC; Five Senses (Pentagon EP), 2016 EP by the South Korean male group ...
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.
In the time of William Shakespeare, there were commonly reckoned to be five wits and five senses. [3] The five wits were sometimes taken to be synonymous with the five senses, [3] but were otherwise also known and regarded as the five inward wits, distinguishing them from the five senses, which were the five outward wits.
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Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph after L.-L. Boilly. Sensory history is an area of academic study which examines the role the five senses have played in the past.