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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
(3) Avadhi Inâna is knowledge of the past and the future lives through the psychic power of the soul.
(4) Manah-paryaya Jnana is the knowledge of the ideas and thoughts of others.
(5) Kevala Jnana is omniscience or knowledge unlimited as to space, time or object.
The first three kinds of knowledge when associated with right belief, are called right knowledge and when associated with wrong belief, they are called wrong knowledge. Thus there are eight kinds of knowledge. The living beings have got life, they are not dead—such recognition is done through any of these twelve kinds of conscious attentiveness. These are from the practical point of view. Pure conation and pure knowledge are the two real characteristics of a soul from the real point of view.
III. The soul is non-material from the real point of view, because it has not got colour, smell, taste and touch, the attributes of matter; but from the practical point of view, it appears as material in mundane life, because it is wholly obscured by the dirt of karmic matter. The worldly conditions and all impurities are due to the karmic effects. This impure condition is coming on from eternity, though new karmic matter is mixed and old one is shed off at every instant.
IV. Doer :---From the practical stand-point, it is said to be the doer of its impure thought-activities, delusion, love and hatred etc., which are really due to
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