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Chapter 1 - Sutra 32–33: Mind, body, and the five elements form the different manifestations of consciousness. Their function is to illuminate the subject of the scriptures. Hence, they are all called knowledge, but the first three are considered as knowledge and ignorance; like, cognitive knowledge, cognitive ignorance, auditory knowledge, auditory ignorance, intuitive knowledge, and intuitive ignorance – division of knowledge.
Since the three manifestations of perception, action, and intuition denote their own subject, they are called knowledge, but why are they also referred to as ignorance? Because knowledge and ignorance are two terms with contradictory meanings and cannot be applied in the same sense as light and darkness.
However, those three manifestations are indeed knowledge according to worldly indications, but here they are referred to as forms of knowledge and ignorance according to scriptural indications. The spiritual scripture indicates that the perceptions, actions, and intuition of false belief are all considered as ignorance in the knowledge-related manifestations, while the same three manifestations in right belief should be acknowledged as knowledge.
It is impossible that only the right belief soul conducts valid transactions and the false belief does not. It is also impossible that right belief is free from doubt and the delusion of false knowledge while false belief always possesses it. It is not correct to claim that the sensory tools of right belief are complete and faultless, whereas those of false belief are incomplete and defective.