Comparative Study of Indian Science

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: C S Mallinath

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cendental Perception..................is dependent solely on the Soul as regards its origin (Vadi-deva).” It is either Incomplete or Complete. Incomplete Transcendental Perception again is either Avadhi-jnana or Manali-paryaya-jnana.
"The Avadhi-jnana is knowledge which arises when what envelopes it subsides in a peculiar way,which is connate in some and in others, acquired by means of rightness and which has for its objects things having form." It seems that Patanjali had in view Avadhi-jnana when he says,-"When that Illuminating Principle is directed to them, the minute (e.g., the atoms); the intervened and the distant are known (26, Bibhuti-pada, Yoga-sutras)." It is clairvoyance which is described by Mr. Jastrow (Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology) as "the alleged ability by. use of a peculiar faculty to see things not normally visible at all or things at a great distance." According to Kundakundacharyya, Avadhi is of three kinds, Desavadhi, Paramavadhi and Sarvavadhi." The Desavadhi is Avadhi-jnana regarding only a limited number of things. The Paramavadhi is a higher faculty by means of which an indefinite number of supersensuous perceptions can be had. The Sarvavadhi is the highest form of Avadhi-jnana by which all the supersensuous aspects of all the things
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