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KARXA PHILOSOPHY
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and it is only found in living beings having five organs of sensation. [As before mentioned, this doctrine of karma applies to all living beings, and not merely to man.] The mind has also two sides, objective and subjective.
All knowledge itself has two aspects or points of view, namely the right and the wrong. One person forms a judgment, perhaps, about another person, aud it is a wrong judgment. And until we get the habit or the ability of assuming the right attitude, we cannot form right judgments.
with reference to the first form of knowledge, or mutijoana, we now come to the different stages of this form of knowledge; the process.
There are five stages in the process, namely:
1. In this first stage, what takes place is the establishment of the relation of contact between the organs of sensation and the vibrations from the extermal object in the external world. The stimulus from outside, creates a sort of excitation in the end-organ (ear, eye, etc.)-only in the organs of sensation and not in the mind. In this first stage a relation is established between the subjective and objective world.
2. After the relation is established, a kind of excitation takes place in the consciousness, wbere the person thinks "What is that?". This second stage, in the process, is the first activity of the
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