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subdivisions; Class 3. into 2 subdivisions; Class into 28 subdivisions; Class 5. into 4 subdivisions; Class 6. into 103 subdivisions; Class 7. into 2 subdivisions; Class 8 into 5 subdivisions.)
To continue with the subdivisions of CLASS No. I.
Subdivision the 2nd: is that karma which obscures the second form of knowledge (shrutajnāna). Shrutajnana is knowledge acquired by interpreting signs; to know through signs is shrutajnana. Reading is interpreting signs; there are the signs by which we know that a man is angry; a man sneezing, is a sign, that there is something the matter with his nervous system.
Subdivision the 3rd: Is that karma which obscures the form of knowledge known as 'avadhijnāna'. In this form of knowledge the soul or ego comes to know about material objective things and beings without the use of the sense-organs or the mind. It is the next higher form of knowing after shrutajnāna. The karma which obscures this form of knowing is active in nearly all of us. By this means of knowing we become aware of physical things at a distance without going to the place or having the sense-organs in contact with the object. So that, while in London you know what is going on in New York, or in Mars, or on the Sun. But it is only material matters that are known by this means (as distinguished from ideas
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