Crossword-Solution: PENTADS 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

That is the meaning of the much controverted Sutra: "Vrittayah panchatayych," "the vrittis, or modes of the mind, are pentads." If you look at it in that way, the later teachings will be more clearly understood.

Pleasure and Pain Let us pass again from that to another statement made by this great teacher of Yoga: "Pentads are of two kinds, painful and non-painful." Why did he not say: "painful and pleasant"? Because he was an accurate thinker, a logical thinker, and he uses the logical division that includes the whole universe of discourse, A and Not-A, painful and non-painful.

However that may be, I believe that the model upon which the Irish triads, tetrads, pentads, &c., were formed is to be sought in those enumerative sayings--_Zahlensprüche_, as the German technical term is--of Hebrew poetry to be found in several books of the Old Testament.

The nature of a spiritual teacher is explicated in the Gaṇakáriká:-- "But there are eight pentads to be known, and a group, one with three factors; "He that knows this ninefold aggregate is a self-purifier, a spiritual guide.

Thus he says:-- "The spiritual teachers, a cavern, a special place, the burning-ground, and Rudra only." (_e._) Perseverance is the endurance in one or other of these pentads until the attainment of the desired end, and is distributed into the differenced and the rest.