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offering and willing etc.. The external senses are related with knowing only. In the case of knowing the mind is further analysed in two varieties. It serves as an instrument of an independently recognised category of knowledge, as in the case of memory, inference etc. It also serves as an instrument of the development of sense cognition. As a matter fact both types are fundamentally the same. The elements of memory and inference exist in both cases. But, in one case they are independently recognised whole in others they are secondary to the sense cognition. This division does not exist in the Āgamic period. It was introduced by the logical period, where the question of inference etc. came into prominence with the impact of the Navya-nyāya.
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Kausitaki Upanişad- 3/8
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