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 ahaṃkāra (I-maker) is self-conceit.
The sāttvika set of eleven proceeds from the modifying (guṇa (sattva, rajas, tamas) (vaikṛta)) ahaṃkāra (I-maker);
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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.
The I-maker too "is born from intellect"—so it is a modification;
and it is threefold—modificatory (vaikārika), elemental (bhūtādi), and energetic (taijasa).
in the generation, respectively, of the two effects—the modificatory's and the elemental's, each active in nature—there is the assistance of the energetic I-maker;