राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा प्रणाली एवं भारतीय मानस (श्री अरविन्द - एकात्म शिक्षा दर्शन)

10 NATIONAL EDUCATION
he blunders and thinks he has found
the real thing when it is something
else irrelevant if not valueless, on
which he has laid his hand. The
passive memory or chitta needs
no training, it is automatic and
naturally sufficient to its task ; there is
not the slightest object of knowledge
coming within its field which is not
secured, placed and faultlessly preserv-
ed in that admirable receptacle. It
is the active memory, a higher but
less perfectly developed function,
which is in need of improvement.
The second layer is the mind
proper or manas, the sixth sense of
our Indian Psychology, in which all
the others are gathered up. The
function of the mind is to receive the
images of things translated into sight,
sound, smell, taste and touch, the five
senses and translate these again into