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92 on it by the stimuli coming from the outside through the sense-windows. Mind not only furnishes the connections to the stimuli received through the different senses, but stores their influences in the form of impressions. But these impressions remain a confused, disconnected mass until the discriminative faculty (Buddhi) operates on the impressions. A relevant connection is then established and the details of the outer world are recognized as such. They are projected, so to speak, and known in the forms of time and space, having distinct associations—quantity, quality, measure, and meaning. A house is then known as a house, and not as a post. This is the result of the operation of the Intellect (Buddhi). First we see an object, feel it, and then hear the sound of it when struck, our mind receiving these impressions and storing them. Buddhi interprets them and seems to project them in the form of a house with its various parts—size, shape,