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his real thoughts or mind. Things and objects can be seen, but thoughts cannot be seen, they can be known. You know an idea, you do not literally see it. In this form of knowing you actually know the thoughts of people.
Subdivision the 5th is that karma which obscures the form of knowing called kevalajižāna, knowledge which is quite unlimited and disembodied.
Thus in CLASS No. 1 of the 8 classes of karma there are the above mentioned 5 subdivisions.
With reference to the avadhijñāna, it was said in illustration of the (e) kind that a pupil of a teacher had the perception by this means of some man and his wife in a distant planet and being amused with what they were doing, the pupil smiled and laughed, and then the sight disappeared. The teacher said that the act of laughing stopped the knowing. In laughing he left off knowing.
The knowing faculty is one aspect of the pure soul. There are other aspects, but knowing is one.
From the low standpoint (see later on under Nigc:la) the karma is a higher stage : from the ideal standpoint the karma is an obstruction : the stage of karma is a stage in the line of progress of the soul from the low standpoint.
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