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higher forms of knowing are in addition to the lower forms, the lower forms do not drop away as the higher ones develop ; the five ways of knowing given are simply the order in which the soul developes itself. All knowledge is based on sensation.
And so we have in this rough classification of karmas, no less than 158 energies which are in us either active or dormant ready to break out as soon as the circumstances allow or cause. They are given in continuation of a previous series of 12 lectures on mental concentration, and the idea is that the bad energies should be removed and good ones generated, or developed.
The quality of the soul which comes out upon the removal of the 7th class of karma, is that the circumstances or surroundings are neither high nor low; and when the 8th class is removed the quality of the soul that comes out is infinite capacities of activity. (Not omnipotence. Yet cannot create souls, in the sense of their not having previously existed.)
List of the 158 Karmas : Class 1. Jnānāvaraniya karma, ... 5 kinds, Class 2. Darshanāvaraniya karma,.. 9 kinds, Class 3. Vedaniya karma, ... ... 2 kinds, Class 4. Mohaniya karma,... ... 28 kinds, Class 5. Ayuh karma, ... ... 4 kinds, Class 6. Nāma karma, ... ... 103 kinds,
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