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8. Right Way of getting Knowledge Vibration is not thought. Vibration is motion.
Thought is consciousness. You can have consciousness of motion; but what is "motion of motion ?"- nothing, nonsense. Vibration can be seen; thought cannot be seen; thought can be known. In seeing an object you can see only one aspect at a time, in knowing an object you can know many aspects at a time.
The thinking activity of the mind stops sensation and is not for perceiving purposes. So that concentration differs in its definition according to the object of concentration.
Incidental. According to the Jain philosophy true. knowledge has three stages, in the first stage there is perception, we perceive an object. The most important part of knowledge is to know how it will
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