Jaina Epistemology

SR No.: 006738
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Indra Chandra Shastri
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 516
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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(5) Smelling and examining the mango fruit is like the mind reflecting over the object and trying to understand it in the light of its previous experiences. This is called 'santfrana' or the investigating consciousness.
(6) Ascertaining that the mango is quite ripe and good is like the mind giving the object a definite place in the field of knowledge. This is called 'Votthapana' or the determining con. sciousness.
(7) 'Eating the mango' is like the mind tending to adjust the object according to its own suitability. This is the most lively state of consciousness, in which the subject is fully conscious of itself and determines its own attitude towards the object. This is called javana or the active consciousness.
In Manodvāra-vīthi or the course of cognition through the mind door, the object of cognition is not a stimulus of the outside world; but, an ideational image arising from within, which presents itself with an already ascertained and determined character. This course of cognition, therefore, begins with the sixth stage of the Pañcadvāra vithi, i. e. with Votthāpana or the determining consciousness. The modern psychology admits the following stages :
Sensation (1) Acquisition
| Perception (2) Conservation Memory
7 Imagination
Conception (3) Elaboration Judgement
| Reasoning
Avagraha (sensation) According to the Jaina psychology of knowing, the cognitive process begins with darśana and ends with Dhāraṇā. There are three middle stages of Avagraha, ībā and Avāya. The stage of judgement is reached in Avāya. The first two stages comprise in awareness and the inclination towards a judgement. The stage of Avagraha appears immediately after Darsana.