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precedes avaya is called tha. Generally speaking, the desire to know the superficially perceived subject during avagrah, in greater detail is called tha. During avagrah reality and unreality or true and false both are received. The process of analyzing that information, reject the unreal and accept the real is accomplished by iha.
Avaya-The decision arrived at through the activity of iha is avaya. Decision and certainty are other names of avaya. means that the decisive or certain knowledge is called avaya.
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Dharana-To accept or absorb, into the mind or the memory, the so decided meaning is called dharana. A decision stays momentarily. It vanishes the moment the attention is diverted or the subject is changed. But it sticks into the memory as samskar (attitude, here the key that activates the specific memory) and surfaces when it is triggered by some coincidence. Such reality, firmly established into memory is also known as dharana. There are said to be three levels of dharana—
1. Avichyuti-Not to be diverted from the indulgence directed to
The maximum duration of this undivided dharana is antarmuhurt.
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Any indulgence of a chhadmasth does not stick to one subject for more than antarmuhurt.
2. Vasana-When the knowledge acquired in the state of
avichyuti is fixed into the memory as samskar it is called vasana.
to be firm or to be decisive becomes a habit it may be called These samskars may last for countable or uncountable
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3. Smriti-After vasana is acquired, by seeing an object or by some other coincidence the knowledge surfacing as a consequence of profound samskar is known as smriti.
These four categories of shrut nishrit mati-jnana occur essentially in this sequence. Which means that first of all avagrah comes into
play, dharana.
then comes iha, after iha comes avaya and after avaya comes This sequence is inter-related.
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