Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
you are able to more and more know by this means. [a] The kind which decreases every moment, so that as time goes on, you are able less and less to know by this means, until it may disappear. (e) When you have just one flash of knowing in this way during the life, and no more, either before or after. (f) When it comes it stays. You get it and keep it.
Subdivision the 4th: Is that karina which obscures the form of knovying called 'Mafab-paryavainana. It is mind kuowing; you know the other person's mind, what the ideas and the thoughts are. In the avadhi, you may see the mental pictures which the thoughts of the man produce, but you do not know his real thoughts or mind. Things and objects can be seer, but thoughts cannot be seen, they can be known. You know an idea, you do not literally see it. In this form of knowing you actually know the thoughts of people. [Of course it is obscured in us, and is not recognized as a way of knowing in the West. I
Subdivision the 501: Is that karma which obscures the form of knowing called Kevala-jnana, knowledge which is quite unlimited and disembodied.
Thus in CLASS No. 1 of the 8 classes of karma there are the above mentioned 5 subdivisions,
With reference to the avadhi-jnana, it was said in illustration of the (e) kind that a pupil of a teacher had he perception by this means of some man and