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The relation having thus been estab
lished between the Self and the Not-Self in
(ii) Presen. tative or cognitive
the processes of which stimulus is carried on Stage. from the outside to the cerebro-hemisphere where all the in-going nerves meet, there takes place an excitation in our mind whereupon it re-acts on the stimulus by way of converting it into sensation as well as of interpreting in knowing the contents of the same in and through the process of which, the mind comes to the formation of the notion of its being imposed by something other than itself from without. This notion, thus formed, of the extra-mental object, is homogeneous and indefinite in character in as much as the distinction between the Self and the Not-Self only begins to dawn on the mind in the most rudimentary forms. In our psychology it is called Arthavagraha (afau) or the presentative or cognitive stage in the processes of perceptual elaboration.
Iha (1) is the third stage. The mind does not rest with the formation of the vague notion of the Not-Self, as referred to in the above. Rather it goes on with its search
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(iii) Compa
rative Stage.
