Abstract:
In his work “The Issues of the Georgian Language and History
of Writing” (1956), Iv. Javakhishvili represents the trustful
observation of the starting religious semantical functioning of
some Old Georgian word combinations such as − old Georg. gonebis
tualni "eyes of the mind" and old Georg. gonebis qurni
“ears of the mind".
These terms were used to deliver a “significant feature of
the human spirit action” due to which an object is perceived not
“by means of eyes and ears”, but only by mind implying that
„only through the human mind can be the inner mental functioning
carried on“ and as for the organ of speech, in this case it
remains silent. Human mind is the organ which directs this invisible
action and as for the words they “transmit only what is inside
the mind”. The scientist notes that both these terms „were
forgotten by the Georgian writers through the followed times
and thus, the famous writer and scientist Sulknan-Saba Orbeliani
did not include them into his dictionary“.
Among the word-combinations (terms) under the discussion,
the old Georg. term gonebis quri “ear of the mind" is not functioning including nowadays though it preserved the its old
functional semantics; as for the old Georg. term gonebis tuali
"eye of the mind", it also is not reflected in Sulkhan-Saba dictionary;
though the old Georg. term gulis quri "ear of the heart",
which is structurally similar to the above mentioned terms, is
explained in the dictionary and it is met in the text of the Old
Georgian piece of literature named “Tortures of St. Habo” (VIII
century, the author is Iovane Sabanisdze): "qurni gulisa da gonebisa
tquenisani“ − "the ears of the your heart and mind". We
have also a word-combination term in Old Georgian − gulis tuali
"eye of the heart" − literraly tualni gulisani "the eyes are the
heart" (Ephessians 1, 17-18), where the term heart (Georg. guli)
preserves the semantics of the "mind".
All four terms (gonebis tuali, gonebis quri, gulis tuali and
gulis quri) convey the true meaning of the synergy of mind and
heart, which is clearly reflected in Scripture (e.g.: 3 Kings 3, 15,
Book of Joshua 14, 7-8; Matthew 6, 21-22; Luke 24, 45; John 1, 1;
Acts 2, 1-1; 4, 32; 1 Corinthians 14, 15 and others); resulted out of
this, we see the inclusive terminological nest of the terms expressed
through the Old Georgian word-combinations containing
such components as “mind”, “heart” “eye” and “ear”.
All four types of "phraseological" terms reflect the formulation
of Godly lifestyle Choice, in which the determining function
is given to God-loving mind, along with a purified heart.
