47. Then the living soul felt in itself the sense of its consciousness, and by thinking ‘what am I,’ was conscious of its egoism. (Why is the non-ego of the objective world put before the ego? The objective orb of the world should follow the subjective consciousness). 48. This god next found in his understanding the knowledge of the word taste, and got the notion of its becoming the object of a particular organ of sense, to be hereafter called “the tongue.” (_Rasaná_ or the instrument of the perception of _rasa_ or flavour. _Rasa_ abiding in water is reckoned first of the elements on account the Spirit of God resting on it before creation, wherefore God is himself called _rasa_ in the Sruti—_rasa vaitat_). 49. The living soul then found out in his mind the meaning of the word ‘light,’ which was afterwards to sparkle in the eye—the particular organ of sight. (The Bible says, _lux fiat et lux fit_—Light to be the first work of creation; though the Vedas give Priority to water as in the passages “_apa eva sasarjádau_”, Manu. _Yasrishtih Srasturádyá._ Sakuntala). 50. Next the god came to know in his mind the property of smell, and the organ of smelling; as also the substance of earth to which it appertains as its inseparable property. (The Nyaya says: _prithví gandhavatí_—the earth is smelling. It followed the creation of light). 51. In this manner the living soul, came to be acquainted at once with the other sensations, and the organs to which they appertain as their inseparable properties and objects. (The word _bhavitá_ means the spontaneous growth of these faculties in the soul or mind, and _kákatálíya_ signifies the simultaneous occurrence of the senses, and sensible objects, and their sensations in the mind). 52. The unsubstantial living spirit which derives its being from the essence of the substantial Brahma, comes next to acquire the knowledge of sound, the object of the organ of hearing, and the property of air. (So Nyáya:—“_ákásh sabdádharah_”; and “_yá Sruti visaya gunáh_”—Sakuntala). 53. It then comes to understand the meaning of the word touch (twak) as the medium of feeling, as also to know the tongue as the only organ of taste. (According to schoolmen, taste is the object of the palate and not of the tongue). 53. It finds the property of colour to be the peculiar object of the eye—the organ of sight; and that of smell to be an object peculiar to the nose—the organ of the sense of smelling (ghránendriya). 54. The living soul is thus the common receptacle of the sensations, and source of the senses, which it developes afterwards in the organs of sense in the body. It perceives the sensation of sensible objects through the perceptive holes, that convey their perceptions into the sensorium of the mind. (The common sensory is variously placed in Western philosophy, such as the heart, brain, pineal gland, the ventrialis &c.).