1. The internal faculty of thought and feeling in philosophy, comprising intellect, mind, self-consciousness, and thought. 2. Mind, heart, or feeling in general literature.
अन्तःकरण (karaṇa) (antaḥkaraṇa) [Printed book page 114-b] अन्तःकरण (karaṇa) (antaḥkaraṇa) Tatpur. n. (
-णम् (-ṇam)) (In Philosophy.)
1 The interior
sense (also called आभ्यन्तरकरण (karaṇa) (ābhyantarakaraṇa)) opposed to the वाह्यकरण (karaṇa) (vāhyakaraṇa)
(q. v.) or exterior sense; this notion which in general may
be termed ‘the faculty of thinking’ (’) is thus modified in the
Vedānta and in the Sāṅkhya: a (In the Vedānta it implies)
the notion of what is the general substratum of आत्मन् (ātman) or
Soul (Śaṅkara: तच्चात्मन उपाधिभूतमन्तःकरण (karaṇa)म् (taccātmana upādhibhūtamantaḥkaraṇam)); its activity
becomes manifest in two of the seventeen सूक्ष्मशरीर (sūkṣmaśarīra) (q. v.)
or subtle bodies of creation, viz. in the बुद्धि (buddhi) (q. v.) or that
mental activity which forms positive conclusions, and in
the मनस् (manas), (manas,) or that mental activity which ‘discerns and doubts’ (’);
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and as चित्त (citta) or ‘logical combination’ (’) is involved by the
activity of बुद्धि (buddhi), (buddhi,) and अहङ्कार (ahaṅkāra) or ‘self-consciousness’ (’) is in-
volved by मनस् (manas), (manas,) the activity of the अन्तःकरण (karaṇa) (antaḥkaraṇa) is fourfold,
viz. as that of बुद्धि (buddhi), (buddhi,) मनस् (manas), (manas,) चित्त (citta) (buddhi, manas, citta) and अहङ्कार (ahaṅkāra). Śaṅkara in
his commentary on the Vedānta Sūtras varies slightly in this
respect by substituting विज्ञान (vijñāna) for अहङ्कार (ahaṅkāra); (ahaṅkāra;) the difference
however is merely apparent, विज्ञान (vijñāna), (vijñāna,) worldly knowledge,
being also one of the attributes of मनस् (manas) (Śaṅkara: ‘अन्तः- (‘antaḥ-)
करण (karaṇa)ं मनो बुद्धि (buddhi)र्विज्ञान (vijñāna)ं चित्त (citta)मिति चानेकधा तत्र तत्राभि- (karaṇaṃ mano buddhirvijñānaṃ cittamiti cānekadhā tatra tatrābhi-)
लप्यते (lapyate)’ (’)). b. (In the Sāṅkhya it is not the substratum of पुरुष (puruṣa)
or Soul but) the generic name and characteristic of three
successive productions of प्रकृति (prakṛti) or Matter, viz. of बुद्धि (buddhi) ‘as-
certainment or positive conclusion’ (’), of its product अहङ्कार (ahaṅkāra)
self-consciousness’ (’) and of the product of Ahaṅkāra, viz.
मनस् (manas) which in this philosophy means ‘an organ both of sen-
sation and of action’ (’) (see बुद्धीन्द्रिय (buddhīndriya) and कर्मेन्द्रिय (karmendriya)), ‘the
organ of volition’ (’) (see सङ्कल्प (saṅkalpa)). ‘The ten external organs
(viz the five organs of sensation and the five of action)
supply the objects for the ‘interior sense’ (’), their time is the
present time, while the interior sense embraces the past,
present and future time’ (’). 2 (In the non-philosophical lite-
rature where philosophical terms are usually employed in
a vague manner, this word means) Mind, heart, feeling,
a synonyme of मनस् (manas) in its vague, unphilosophical sense;
e. g. (in a verse of the Mālatīmādhava where an apparent
show is made of philosophical accuracy) प्रेमार्द्राः प्रणयस्पृ- (premārdrāḥ praṇayaspṛ-)
शः (śaḥ)…चेष्टा भवेयुर्मयि । यास्वन्तःकरण (karaṇa)स्य वाह्यकरण (karaṇa) (vāhyakaraṇa)व्यापा- (…ceṣṭā bhaveyurmayi . yāsvantaḥkaraṇasya vāhyakaraṇavyāpā-)
ररोधीक्षणादाशंसापरिकल्पितास्वपि भवत्यानन्दसान्द्रोदयः (rarodhīkṣaṇādāśaṃsāparikalpitāsvapi bhavatyānandasāndrodayaḥ)
(var. lect. °सान्द्रो लयः (°sāndro layaḥ))--E. अन्तर् (antar) and करण (karaṇa).
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