In English
, the wakeful state is the state of normal consciousness and is concerned with the gross world of matter. It brings empirical knowledge of the phenomenal world acquired through sensations and perceptions. It has several means of knowing. These consist of the (the five organs of action), the (the five organs of perception), the five (vital energies), (mind), (intellect), (consciousness), and (ego). In the these nineteen aspects of sensational or empirical knowledge are integrated. It is essentially this knowledge which hankers after the pleasures of the material world.