It is said that the five senses are the faculities of one Mind.Each sense have their own function.My question?

Question

Is it possible to experience all the senses as a single total experience? Mind can do only one thing at a time like it can either see or smell etc. it happens so fast that we fail to recognize the disability of the mind!Or can we interchange the function of the senses like smell from eyes ,see through ears ,touch by eyes etc.As the mind is the mother of senses it is the source can we do it guide me ,tell me your own experience.

Answer 1

I might revel in the world of intelligibility which still remains to me, but although I have an idea of this world, yet I have not the least knowledge of it, nor can I ever attain to such knowledge with all the efforts of my natural faculty of reason. It is only a something that remains when I have eliminated everything belonging to the senses, but this something I know no further. There must here be a total absence of motive - unless this idea of an intelligible world is itself the motive, but to make this intelligible is precisely the problem that we cannot solve.

One of the first poets of the modern metropolis, Charles Baudelaire wrote his well-known sonnet Correspondences: "Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent", a poem in which he stresses the relations of the different sensorial perceptions. In his exploration of spiritual space and depth, Baudelaire was intrigued by the intermingling of the senses, when he wrote:

"What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of ideas, seeing that things have always found their expression through a system of reciprocal analogy."

The human sensorium; touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing have synesthetic qualities in their interactive connections. We see the 'synesthetic experience' particularly in all forms of art —in poetry, painting, sculpture and music.

The 'synesthetic experience' serves as a means to unify the arts through a psychological unity of the senses. Synesthesia refers to the transfer of qualities from one sensory domain to another, to the translation of texture to tone or of tone to colour, smell or taste. Because the various modes of art rest on and appeal to different senses, synesthesia correspondences among the senses and synesthesia can point to similarities and analogues, as well as to metaphors or differences among the artistic forms.

Answer 2

hmmm...

The five senses as we say are:
1. The sense of Sight
2. The sense of Sound
3. The sense of Smell
4. The sense of Touch
5. The sense of Taste

All these senses are percieved and processed by our mind which is one but which also is above these as it itself doesnt sense any of these. It interprets them for us.

We can and do experience all these five senses in our day to day lives but are not 'aware' of it. To attain that 'awareness is what keeps the yogis, the meditationer, the bhakta, the seeker, everyone in pursuit.

For example while having a sizzler it is our ears that perceive the sense of Sound it makes, the eyes See the beautiful layout, the nose Smells the aroma rising from it, the fingers (or the fingers thru the fork) sense the Feel of it, and finally the tongue Tastes it, thereby all five senses are involved in the process of gaining the satisfaction of eating it. While eating all these five senses work in tandem to give you that outworldly experience of satisfaction.

To 'recognise' this and to 'consciously experience' all the five sense at once is an exercise in itself and requires great deal of patience, discipline, and persistence. But it can be felt and recognised in our day to day lives too.

My personal experience close to it happened when on the last day of the ganapati festival some yers back I was just talking to Ganesha after performing the visarjan pooja and the bhog. It is then I lost sense of my surroundings and could feel the soft cushions below me, could feel the fragrance of flowers and could taste the bhog and tell which item has lesser salt and teh taste of raisins in the kheer, also i cud sense a deep sense of satisfaction of satiating my hunger. Along with it I could sense the love, the feeling of going away, the knowledge of someone being there always and above all happiness like i've never felt before. And when I opened my eyes I could distincly see the Idol b4 me smiling a satisfied smile. Later on when I realized that i was sitting on a hard wodden floor, had not eaten anything since early morning, did I realize what happened. and was in daze the entire day. I mean as i type this i have the hair on me all standing just thinking about that experience. This for me was as close an experience of all the senses together and as divine experienced ever.

thanks

Answer 3

A tough one
As per my experiences I say it this way, that the human is made himself disable with the knowledge he acquired which the race had accumulated from the past en number of generations.

We actually taste with our eyes
See with the ears and so on because we got habituated to many of these things in life and got it in a routine path.

Yes it is possible to have the experience, but for that we need to know what is what, we need to differentiate between the sense and make them individuals and then make a single.

And I often feel it when I do my paintings.

Answer 4

I had an experience once that was quite unexpected and profound. I had stepped outside of the home I was working on to smoke a cigarette and leaned against a wall while looking out across the yard at some trees and flowers, it started to sprinkle rain as it was spring, all of a sudden I felt my mind shift and everything that was outside was now inside and I was feeling my insides with my eyes, the trees and flowers were moving gently in the breeze and as they were inside of me now they were tickling me, it is indescribable I had never felt so good in my life. I suppose the other senses were the same but it was my feeling eyes that really overwhelmed me.

Answer 5

Oh No !
Mind perhaps diverts your attention from sense organs. Brain receives the sensations, and so, to be available, does not itself experience any pain (Having reached brain, the doctor does not need any anaesthetic to operate the brain, since it does not 'feel' any pain).
Mind can be experienced only by practicing to be a witness to it, and this witnessing aspect becomes stronger when our involvement in thoughts(of mind) proportionately reduces!
All animals have enhanced levels of sensory perception, ALSO because they have no self-awareness, and so, are not so deeply stuck their own minds, as we humans are ! For that matter, the child receives inputs at sensory levels much deeper than an adult, though some may not manifest having so received!

Answer 6

Yes. It is not only possible, but this is the very thing Monks, Mystics, and Yogis have been after for thousands of years. It is the complete integration of life in one Wholeness.

One who has achieved this is experiencing "all in one" on the level of abstract light of the Self, and yet they are moving about in the normal realm of life we all experience. The difference is that they are moving around in fulfillment... while others have yet to find it.

And by the way, that is an excellent question.

Answer 7

We all have the ability to touch and feel with our hands and our hearts, to see and perceive with our eyes and our minds, and to listen and hear with our ears and our souls. You question begs us to dare to be as whole as we already are.

When we limit our thought processes to a linear vein, we see our senses as individual perceptions. Undo the definition of your mind and allow all senses to function simultaneously in every part of your body.

My experience was when teaching a Tai-Chi class and doing a breathing meditation in the midst of stretching, my body expanded to the ceiling and beyond, and every sense was being experienced through every primary and secondary chakra in my body. It was almost overwhelming, completely and consummately empowering. I have not been able to replicate that experience in the same manner.

Oh, to never be able to experience it again for the first time . . . .

Answer 8

Mind is the controller of all the five senses... right! But mind never interferes in the working of an individual sense. Every sense is an individual entity entirely on its own. Mind power of the whole Cosmos is one. No individual living being including human beings has an independent mind. We all have a brain... never a mind!

The entire cosmic system has two compartments for the mind. Mind plus from where flow all the positive thoughts floating in the Cosmos. Mind minus is the source of all negative thoughts. Mind acts as the main... the central transmitting station for the whole Cosmos. We human beings can invoke any thought positive or negative depending upon the residual balance of karma!

Those with a sunny disposition and godly thinking invoke positive thoughts. Others indulging in wanton desires and materialistic riches invoke negative thoughts. The human brain always acts as an antenna... a transmitter and receiver of thoughts floating in ether! As is our tendency... the residual balance of karma... So is the invocation of thoughts by us... positive or negative!

The human journey needs the faculty of five senses to cross through the ocean of Samsara (worldly life). Every sense has an independent function to perform. None interferes in the working of other. Nor is one dependent on the other. A person can be blind, deaf and dumb... yet lives assisted by the balance two senses.

Every human being simply acts as a transistor. When a person mimics another... we simply switch the frequency of our thoughts to match the frequency of other. The moment that happens... words coming out of our mouth mimic that person. Does it mean any human being can invoke the thoughts of another by traveling to the same frequency, yes... it is possible!

On the spiritual path when I was nearing self realization... I rose myself to the frequency of Lord Krishna and lo... the entire Bhagavad Gita started coming out of my mouth as if I had written the Bhagavad Gita in one of my earlier manifestations! The moment I reached the frequency of Swami Vivekananda... his lecture on zero started coming out of my mouth verbatim. More on Mind Power - http://www.godrealized.org/mind_a_universal_phenomenon.html

Answer 9

Your self-awareness/consciousness is exactly that...

Experiencing all the senses as a single total experience...

Voila!

Welcome to the World, mate...

"It's all apples...!"

Answer 10

your question is contradictory.

one can see all the sences as a single total experience. but the fuction of the sences can not be interchanged
hence both are not same things

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