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With original Prakriti, the seven beginning with Mahat and Ahankara and numbering the five Tanmatras.

We will not now inquire whether the difference is one of states or of entities; whether the phenomenal or mind consciousness is merely the external condition of one indivisible Ego, or has its origin and nature in an altogether different principle; the Spirit, or immortal part of us, being of Divine birth, while the senses and understanding, with the consciousness—Ahankara—thereto appertaining, are from an Anima Mundi, or what in the Sankhya philosophy is called Prakriti.

The seat of the manas is the root of the throat, of buddhi the face, of chitta the umbilicus, and of ahankara the breast.

Ahankara also has three attributes, viz.,

It depends on the 5th—Manas or Ahankara, the "I"—to thin the guna, "rope," into one thread—the sattwa; and thus by becoming one with the "unevolved evolver," win immortality or eternal conscious existence.