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## Gatha 303-304
**Knowledge Path/376**
Just like the transformation of right and wrong knowledge, the state of being of a different species is attained. Therefore, even though it is one, it is called mixed.
Knowledge is the understanding that arises from the object that is perceived as it is. Ignorance is the understanding that arises from the object that is perceived as it is, but is tainted by defects. Knowledge of a different species is the knowledge that arises from the cause of a different species. This is called mixed knowledge.
Mind-perception knowledge ranges from being deluded and associated with the senses to being subtle, free from passions, and devoid of attachment. This is because the masters of mind-perception knowledge are restrained.
**Doubt:** Why don't the beings in the lower stages of the qualities, such as those who wander the land, have mind-perception knowledge?
**Solution:** They don't, because it is contradictory to believe that mind-perception knowledge arises with restraint, without restraint, and with unrestraint.
**Doubt:** If restraint is the cause of the arising of mind-perception knowledge, then why don't all restrained beings have mind-perception knowledge?
**Solution:** If only restraint were the cause of the arising of mind-perception knowledge, then this would be the case. But there are other causes for the arising of mind-perception knowledge, and because those other causes are not present, mind-perception knowledge does not arise in all restrained beings. Therefore, the Gatha says, "It is accompanied by a specific restraint."
**Doubt:** What are those other specific causes?
**Solution:** Other causes are specific types of substance, specific regions, and specific times, without which mind-perception knowledge does not arise in all restrained beings.
The author himself will specifically discuss the distinctions of mind-perception knowledge, etc., in Gatha 435 to 459.
**Characteristics of the Three Types of Knowledge**
"Just as you describe the body, the cage, the fetters, and the bonds, so too is the knowledge that arises from the other, the knowledge that arises from the other, the knowledge that arises from the other." (303)
"Just as the Bharata Ramayana is, so too is the knowledge that arises from the other, the knowledge that arises from the other, the knowledge that arises from the other." (304)
1. Dhavla Pu. 1 Sutra 116 Commentary p. 363-364.
2. Dhavla Pu. 1 Sutra 116 Commentary p. 364.
3. "Mranapjjavashani Pamattamanjan-pahudhi Jan Khilkasay-bidarag Chudumtya Ti. || 121 ||" [Dhavla Pu. 1 p. 366]
4. Dhavla Pu. 1 Sutra 121 Commentary p. 366-367.
5. Babal Pu. 1 p. 358 Ma. 176; Pra. Pan. Sangrah Pu. 25 Ga. 118 and p. 576 Ga. 107.
6. Dhavla Pu. 1 p. 358 Ga. 180 Pra. Pan. San. Pu. 26 Ga. 116 and p. 576 Ma. 105.