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SUTRAS
THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
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they have no insight into the nature of their consciousness. None of their (materially oriented) knowledge stimulates the unfoldment of their inherent potential.
The amount of worldly knowledge or material possessions have absolutely no effect on our spiritual development. Orientation towards inner growth is the decisive factor that arranges all our knowledge - how little it may be - in such a way that it leads us to ever more comprehensive insights into higher dimensions of our life.
Here ends the description of Total Perception - pramana. The next sutra explains the mechanism of partial sight - naya.
SUTRA 33 नैगमसंग्रह व्यवहारर्जुसूत्रशब्दसमभिरूद्वैवंभता नयाः ॥ ३३ ॥ Naigama sangraha vayvahara rjusutra shabda samabhirudhaivambhuta nayah (33) Knowledge from partial sight (naya) is gained in seven steps:
1 - outlining an indistinct experience (naigama) 2 - recognizing the interconnected whole behind the experience
(sangraha) 3 - identifying its functional elements (vyavahara) 4 - asserting what really manifests in the present (rju sutra) 5 - deepening the insight by verbally describing it (sabda) 6- condensing this conscious insight into one clear image
(samabhirudha) 7- integrating this one clear image into our consciousness
(evambhuta). (33)
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