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speech which has been thought of, in the mind of another. knows the material objects of all the three times i-e past, present, and future, thought of by any soul in the present.
If a man is thinking, for instance, about a pot, a Yogi or an ascetic with Riju-mati labdhi, can only know that the particular individual is thinking about a pot, if the pot exists within four to eight yojans, and also if it relates to two or three past or future incarnations, and at the most to seven or eight such incarnations, without any reference to the particular attributes of the pot, as regards Dravya Substance, Kṣétra
Place, Kala Time, and Bhāva a Quality.
9. Vipula-mati fagonfa is complex direct knowledge of complex mental things e-g. of what a man is thinking about now, along with what he has thought of it in the past, and will think of it in future.
Complex mental knowledge knows, what has been thought of in the past and will be thought of in the future It is of six kinds, as it knows matter and form of thought about simple and complex activity of body, mind, and speech thought of by
another.
Complex Mental Knowledge is purer than simple mental knowledge. This purity relates to Dravya Subject-matter, Ksétra Space, Kāla Time, and Bhāva a Quality, of things known.
Complex mental knowledge relates to from 7 or 8, to innumerable incarnations.
As to place, complex mental knowledge extends from 4 or 8 Yojans to Aḍhi Dvipa 1 Two and a half continents. Difference between Visual and Mental knowledge.
The differences between Visual and Mental knowledge relate to their purity, place, person of inherence, and subject-matter. 1. Manaḥ-paryaya a:afa Mental is purer than Avadhi Jiana ft Visual knowledge.
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