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9. Avadhi
Avadhi is the manifestation of a latent factor of the immortal part of man. In order to let it manifest the obscuring clouds must be (need only to be) removed.
The difference between this method of getting knowledge and the sensuous method is that in the latter the senses of seeing, hearing, etc., must be used, while in the avadhi you do not use the senses of the nervous system, or these need not be used at all. It is the immortal part that comes directly to know certain things.
The senses must not be despised, it is the first duty of every being to develop the sense activities.
In Avadhi it is the physical material objects that
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