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fatigued so much that it requires a fair
stimulus to wake the man up. 7. The consciousness goes to sleep while the
body is sitting-a very strong degree of
sleep. 8. Sleep while walking (known sometimes of
soldiers on the march). 9. The somnambulistic state; this is the worst
form of this kind of karma (of darshanavaraniya karma). Āvaraniya means obscuring or preventing. This also includes the hypnotic state.
The higher you rise in advancement the more you have the consciousness of your thoughts, of your actions, and of every activity through which you pass. The less you are conscious of these things in the downward direction you are going.
With regard to the avadhi lately mentioned where the soul comes to know directly of distant things without the use of the eye or ear etc, this avadhi must take place in the waking state, while the eye and ear etc, are there and awake, this avadhi is not any kind of dream or trance state, it takes place in the ordinary waking state, when one is up and about.
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