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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
the help of the senses as suspiciously strange, this does not change the fact that the advanced channels are as available to us as the 'normal' ones. Once we dissolve the karmas that block their operation, we will use the more subtle channels in the same natural way as we employ our five senses.
SUTRA 7 चक्षुरचक्षुरवधिकेवलानां निद्रानिद्रानिद्राप्रचलाप्रचलाप्रचलास्त्यान
Chakshur achakshur avadhi kevalanam nidra nidranidra prachala prachalaprachala styana griddhayashcha (7) Karma that prevents insight and understanding (darshana-varana) obstructs - cognition through visual perception (chaksu) - cognition through the other sense-organs (achaksu) - cognition through clairvoyance and telepathy (avadhi) - cognition through omniscience (kevali jnana). It further manifests - sleep (nidra) - deep sleep (nidranidra) - tiredness (prachala) - heavy fatigue (sleeping while sitting) (prachalaprachala) - somnambulism (styangriddhi). (7)
There is a basic difference between karma that obstructs access to the five channels of knowledge (sutra 6) and karma that prevents insight and understanding (sutra 7).
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