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The obscuring karma being removed, the quality of the soul called memory is able to manifest itself.
Any activity of the individual which lessens the capacity of the organs of sensation or of the mind to pass through any of these stages, is knowledge obscuring karma, and each person must discover these karmas or activities for himself, otherwise he does not know what the karmas are, simply to tell him that there are knowledge obscuring karmas is to tell him nothing. The names of the above mentioned stages are :
1. Vyanjana avagraha 2. Artha avagraha 3. Thâ 4. Avaya
5. Dharana (The following is in my notes taken at the time of the lecture) :-Throughout the whole process, the working of the mutijnâna is dependent upon the interpretive faculty, either of the words of a language, or of the actions of the hands and body, etc. There are two kinds of mutijnâna, one which is based and one which is not based on this interpretive faculty.
(With reference to the statement above, that each state of the soul had a beginning, I asked the question “If each state had a beginning, then it follows that the state of being in combination with
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