Ahaṃkāra
“the I-maker”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
ahaṃkāra · the I-maker · I-making · bhūtādi · self-conceit · taijasa · vaikārika
in the texts
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The 'I-making' identification with the deity that alone is retained by the advanced practitioner.
except for the "I-making" (ahaṃkāra) of Vajrasattva, he should make [no ego-clinging] elsewhere.
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The ego-principle ('I-maker') evolving from intellect, source of the organs and the subtle elements.
The sāttvika set of eleven proceeds from the modifying (guṇa (sattva, rajas, tamas) (vaikṛta)) ahaṃkāra (I-maker);
The ahaṃkāra (I-maker) is self-conceit.
**SK 24**
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The 'I-maker' (ahaṃkāra), second evolute of prakṛti, differentiated into modificatory (sāttvika), elemental (tāmasa), and energetic (rājasa) forms that jointly generate the organs and subtle elements.
and it is threefold—modificatory (vaikārika), elemental (bhūtādi), and energetic (taijasa).
And when, overpowering sattva and rajas, the elemental [I-maker], in which the tamas-constituent is preponderant, taking the form of the energetic I-maker as its helper, makes the pentad of subtle elements active in nature, then that pentad of subtle elements is said to be made by the energetic too, by its very assistance;
When, overpowering rajas and tamas, the sattva-constituent becomes preponderant, [and] the I-maker—receiving the name "modificatory," [being] of an inactive nature—taking the energetic I-maker as its helper, generates the eleven organs that are of an active nature, then those [organs], availing themselves of the pretext of [the energetic's] assistance, are said to be made by the energetic [I-maker …