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COMMON SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE....
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removed through the destruction and subsidence of knowledge abscuring karma. Such a psychic factor may be described as a mental set which is necessary for the perceptual experience." This indicates that perception is not possible merely through the sense-organs. This view seems to be in agreement with modern psychology.
Transcendental Perception
The transcendental perception arises directly from the soul. It is “dependent on the soul alone for its genesis."! It is supersensuous perception as distinguished from empirical sensuous perception. It is classified into three kinds :1. Avadhi – clairvoyance 2. Manahparyāya — telepathy 3. Keval - omniscience
1. Avadhijñāna
It is the limited direct perception. It can be translated as clairvoyance. Its genesis depends upon the destruction of karmic veil in a particular way. It is clear perception of the objects having forms, which are not ordinarily perceptible by the senses. There are differences in the degrees of clairvoyant perception according to the differences in subsidence and • destruction of karmic veils. It is capacity to know things
irrespective of time and space. Jainas have developed a method of mathematical calculation to interpret capacity of perception in such a clairvoyant knowledge. Even lower animals and birds can possess this type of perception. This kind of extrasensory perception is becoming the topic of great interest in psychology to-day. Kalghataghi in his book
