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CHAPTER 1
VALID KNOWLEDGE
17. (These are
attributes) of substance (objects).
18. (There is only) apprehension of indistinct things.
19. Indistinct apprehension
does not
arise by means
of the eyes and the
mind.
20. Scriptural knowledge preceded
by sensory
knowledge is
of two
kinds, which are of
twelve and many subdivisions.
21. Clairvoyance (avadhi) based on birth is possessed by celestial
and infernal beings.
22. Clairvoyance from destruction-cum-subsidence (i. e. arising on
the lifting
of the veil) is of six
kinds. It
is acquired
by the
rest (namely
human - beings
and animals).
23. Rjumati and vipulamati are the two kinds of telepathy (manahpayaya).
24. The differences between the two are due to purity and
infallibility. |
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25.
Telepathy (manah paryaha) and clairvoyance (avadhi) differ with
regard to purity, space, knower and objects.
26. The range of sensory knowledge and scriptural knowledge extends
to all the six substances but not to all their modes.
27. (The scope) of clairvoyance is that which has form.
28. The scope of telepathy is the infinitesimal part of the matter ascertained
by clairvoyance.
29. Omniscience (hevala jnana) extends to all entities (substances)
and all their modes simultaneously.
30. From one up to four kinds of knowledge can be possessed
simultaneously by a single soul.
31. Sensory knowledge, scriptural knowledge and clairvoyance may
also be erroneous knowledge.
32. Owing to lack of discrimination between the real and the unreal,
wrong knowledge is whimsical as that of lunatic.
33. The figurative, the synthetic, the analytic, the straight, the formalistic,
the conventional and the specific are the standpoints. |
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