Lockdown 4.0 Day 4 | Topic-wise Quiz

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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
This very world of ours is inhabited by more than seven billion people and if animals, insects, trees and other sentient beings are also taken into consideration, the number would be staggering. And so the impracticability of maintenance of such a stupendous record puts a question mark on the very existence of Chitragupta. Underlying this allegory is an interesting philosophical concept.
Human consciousness is endowed with external and internal organs for receiving and processing information from the external world. The five senses and five motor organs constitute the external instruments. It is with these 10 implements that we interact with the world external to us. The Antahkarana or the internal organ, which enables us to process the information received from sense organs and turn sensation into perception, is functionally classified into four aspects: mana, buddhi, chitta, and ahamkara.
Mana is the mind that coordinates the senses and performs lower-order processing. The aspect of the mind that has the ability to discern is called buddhi. Chitta is the storehouse where the karmic impressions created out of emotional involvement while performing an action are stored. It is the subconscious region which lies more or less shrouded from the conscious mind and is activated during dreaming and deep relaxation. The expression ‘chitta’ is the distorted and vernacular form of the Sanskrit term chitra, which means wonder-evoking. Another interesting meaning of the term ‘chitra’ is imagery.
Since this storehouse of karmic impressions made up of mental imagery is wonderful, it is called Chitra and since it is hidden from the active conscious mind, it is called Gupta. Thus, the reckoner of our past deeds, ‘Chitragupta’ is indeed none other than our subconscious which has been witness to our past actions, storing subtle impressions relentlessly. Amnesia or the nature of the mind to forget is personified as Yama, since death is nothing but a forgetting of our identities and past associations.
We are what we identify ourselves and associate with. If these connections are severed, we call it our death. Indra, the king of gods is the personification of mind, the lower order processing mechanism. He commands the deities — indriyas or senses. He is guided by buddhi or his preceptor Brihaspati, the higher-order discerning power.
Ahamkara is likened to the sacred bull Nandi with its two horns of liking and aversion. Like any bull, it has tremendous power but is often lazy and inactive due to the overpowering effect of Tamo guna. Only when it is charged is its true potential revealed. It sits in front of the immortal Shiva, the Supreme Consciousness. Whenever the Supreme Consciousness wishes to indulge in the mundane world, he rides on Nandi and descends to the physical world. The consciousness makes use of Nandi to descend to the physical plane where Indra, the mind, and devatas, the senses, stand in reverence to receive his command and execute it. The whole process of sensation, perception, lower and higher-order processing, memory, forgetfulness, ego substance and immortal consciousness is beautifully presented in an allegorical fable in the Puranas.