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FOURTH LECTURE
sigas; to know through signs is shrutajnana. Reading is interpreting signs; there are the signs by which we know that a man is angry; & man sneezing, is a sign, that there is soinething the matter with his nervous system
Subdivision the 3rd: Is that karma which obscures the form of knowledge known as 'avadhijnada'. In tbis form of knowledge the soul or ego comes to krow about material objective things and beings without the use of the sense-organs or the mind. It is the next higher form of knowing after shrutajnana. The karma which obscures this foru of knowirg is active in nearly all of us. By this means of knowing we become aware of physical things at a distance without going to the place or having the sense-organs in cortact with the object. So that, while in London you know what is going on in New York, or in Mars, or on the Sun. But it is only material matters that are known by this means [as distinguished from ideas or thoughts, as referred to in the following of 4th forin of knowing). There is just tue following few rough particulars ) given about the kinds of this avadhi-jnara: (a) the kind which follows you from place to place, so that you have this way of knowing in whatever town or place you may be. [b] The kind which is with you only at a certain towu or place and nowhere else, so that if you leave that town, you lose the ability to know in this way. [c] The kind which is increasing, so that as time goes on,
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