Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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There is the consciousness of similarities and diffe
rences.
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And then you come to the fourth stage. It is the conclusion. "No, it is a tree stump" "and not a human being". (Western psychologies would say that all this is the activity of the mind.)
5. In this stage a kind of process goes on, in the consciousness of the individual, and the result of the process is the preservation to a more or less extent of the consciousness acquired in this way. A modification of the consciousness has taken place and will last a certain length of time; and this lasting quality is called this 5th name Dhàranâ'. (The names of the previous stages are given below.) This last stage manifests in the form of the continuance for a certain length of time of the new knowledge. It may also manifest itself in the form which results in only certain impressions made on our consciousness-on account of the impressions the life of the individual is so changed that the activities will in future be different. And a third way in which the last stage of the process of mutijnana manifests itself is that the thing (the thing newly known) can be remembered-it is memory. Memory, as a faculty, is the last result of the activities, which are classed under mutijnāna or the first form of knowledge.
All, except the first stage of these five stages of the process, are the activities of the mind (manas).