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HERMANN KUHN
SUTRAS
SUTRA 5
नामस्थापनाद्रव्यभावतस्तन्नयासः ॥ ५ ॥ Nama sthapana dravya bhavatastannyasah (5) We experience reality (consciousness, matter, time etc.) on four different planes: - on the plane of names - where we use names and terms for the
purpose of communication and social mechanisms (nama) - on the plane of selection - where we filter our individual reality
from the constant barrage of billions of inner and outer stimuli (sthapana) - on the plane of all potentially possible features of the elements - which constitutes the basis for the identical perception of reality by different people (dravya) and - on the plane of facts - where individual features of the elements (or a combination of them) influence our actual present (bhava).
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We tend to regard reality as one holistic experience. Though we assign the themes of our life to well-defined brackets - work, home, leisure, study, vacation etc. - we nevertheless see them as different parts of one basic whole that always functions in the same way, irrespective of the particular activity we are currently engaged in.
Yet there exist four different planes on which we experience reality. And these planes function in distinctly different ways. As long as we are unaware of their mechanisms, experience shows that we tend to confuse them. So if we want to terminate unwanted themes, access more fascinating dimensions or change the general direction into which our life is moving, we need to become aware of the very factors that influence us. By knowing their particular characteristics, it becomes far easier to identify the type of action that will produce the changes we desire.
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