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or thoughts, as referred to in the following or 4th form of knowing). There is just the following (few rough particulars) given about the kinds of this avadhi-jnāna: (a) the kind which follows you from place to place, so that you have this way of knowing in whatever town or place you inay be. (b) The kind which is with you only at a certain town 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, you are able to more and more know by this means. (d) 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 haye 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 karma which obscures the form of knowing called 'Manah-paryavajnāna. It is mind knowing ; 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 seen, 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.)
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