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different systems of action.
(i) The knowledge acquired through senses and the mind is called 48 Mati Gnyana" This is divided into four kinds - अवग्रह, ईहा, अवाय and धारणा. With these four, the gradual stages in the knowledge gained by souls wittout complete knowledge are described. we are unable to know all the points about a thing all at once. The knowledge is gained gradually. At every step becomes clearer and after many steps are traversed then we have full knowledge about a thing. Generally people think that we know intimately about a thing when we once have a look at it. But this is really false First we have a slight glimpse of the object, this is its first Darshana (sight). Then we have a faint idea about it. This is Avagraha. This is followed by doubt and in order to satisfy this doubt comes the Iha. In Iha (partial certainty) also there is no definiteness but it is much inclined towards it. After Iha comes Avaya (definite knowledge). We are able to know the particular object. In detailing this series of reflexes time is required but their actual experience is instantaneous. Knowledge passes all the stages so quickly that we always are not conscious of its intermediate stages But it has to pass these stages which are logical also. If a man pierces hundred tender petals of a louts with a sharp instrument, after placing them one over the other, it would appear on the face of it, that all were picrced at the same time. But is it correct? The instrument first pierced one petal, then came out and pierced another and then came out and entered the third. In this way it pierced the hundred petals. The act of piercing was so quickly done that the intermediate stages could not be discri
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