Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
only, that is to say, the knowledge or awareness of its general properties, e.g., to know an object as a man. Then comes îhâ, which signifies an attitude of enquiry. The soul now exerts itself to acquire detailed information concerning the object of perception, brings its memory to bear upon the stimulus, and proceeds to compare and test its nature and contents with the aid of its menta) reagents. This process, which is dependent on the soul's interest in any given object, may be prolonged as long as it is desirable to continue the investigation. The important thing to know about this state (îha) is that perception here ceases to be mechanical and becomes volitional with the soul. The formation of the percept, consisting in the weaving of the incoming stimulus, in its appropriate place in the warp and woof of consciousness, is the result of iha. This is known as avâya, which is tantamount to the filling in of the detail in the general presentation or outline of an object in consciousness. The material basis here also is the mental stream, consisting of all conceivable kinds of reagents,' which enable the intellect to test the properties of a sensation.
The last stage is dhårņa (literally, grasping), which means retaining or conceiving. By dwelling upon the nature of the object perceived, intellect strips off the presentation all that it has of excitation, leaving it a pure mental diagram which, as we have already seen, is not an image, but an evaporated outline common to images, a tendency of mind, or a kind of nascent action, which, if allowed to develop, would yield an image, as happens in dreams.