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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
2-NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE
Perception is different from the stimulus which gives it rise. The stimulus is material in nature, but perception is psychic. Perception is merely called forth by the stimulus; it is not made, created, or manufactured by it. Besides, perception is unitary; stimulus is non-unitary, that is composite or compound in nature. A Simple thing cannot be created or manufactured; it exists by itself, ready made. This holds good of even a simple state of consciousness, that is, of an idea, which is indivisible.
All perceptions and ideas thus exist in the mind, un-made and un-manufactured. They are as indestructible as the soul-substance itself in which they inhere.
These ideas are themselves not loose units or things somehow stuffed into the simple thing-the soul. They all interpenetrate and really constitute one thought. Unbroken parts of this one huge idea are perceived from time to time; those not perceived remaining suppressed.
The process or rather the mechanism of perception consists of three parts, namely, the senses, the sensory nerves and centres, and the response of the individual consciousness. Stimuli transmitted by the objects are received by the senses. They are then allowed to travel
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