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SUTRA 19 a AFGURA | 98 il Na chakshur anindriyabhyam (19) Indistinct apprehension does not arise through the eyes or the mind. (19)
Our eyes and the mind do not experience indistinct apprehension because these two sense-organs do not come in direct contact with the objects they perceive.
The eyes e.g. can only perceive color that does not come in immediate contact with them. Similarly there certainly is no direct contact between the mind and the objects it perceives. The eyes and the mind therefore have no indistinct apprehension. The impulses they perceive immediately advance to further processing.
SUTRA 20 श्रुतं मतिपूर्व द्वयनेकद्वादशभेदम् ॥ २० ॥ Shrutam matipurvam dvyaneka dvadasha bhedam (20) Knowledge we obtain from external sources (sruti) first needs to be perceived by our senses. There are two types of scriptures.44 The first type has twelve, the second one many divisions. (20)
44 This refers to ancient scriptures describing the unfoldment of con
sciousness. These works are taken to be the main source of external
knowledo. These works sptures describi
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