Chakshus
Chakshus is the 19th of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — eye; sight — in the jnanendriya category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
The 36-tattva chain is the Shaiva (Trika / Shaiva Siddhanta) cosmology, numbered in emanation order from Shiva to earth. It is not the 25-tattva Samkhya list and it does not include the three gunas or the five vayus as tattvas: the gunas are qualities of Prakriti, and the vayus are a separate physiological scheme. The ten entries that overlap the corpus's `tattvas.json` carry a `corresponds_to` cross-reference.
Correspondences
- Number
- 19
Practice
- Magical Uses
- MeditationDiscriminationCosmologySelf enquiry
Nature and meaning
- English
- eye; sight
- Category
- Jnanendriya
Details
- Keywords
- EyeSightFormColourFire
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More in The 36 tattvas
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- Tvak Tvak is the 18th of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — skin; touch — in the jnanendriya category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
- Jihva Jihva is the 20th of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — tongue; taste — in the jnanendriya category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
- Shrotra Shrotra is the 17th of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — ear; hearing — in the jnanendriya category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
- Ghrana Ghrana is the 21st of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — nose; smell — in the jnanendriya category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
- Manas Manas is the 16th of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — mind — in the antahkarana category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
- Vak Vak is the 22nd of the thirty-six Shaiva tattvas — speech; the mouth — in the karmendriya category. It is used for meditation, discrimination and cosmology.
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