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SUTRA 9 मतिश्रुतावधिमनःपर्ययकेवलानि ज्ञानम् ॥ ९ ॥ Mati shrutavadhi manahparyaya kevalani jnanam (9) We access knowledge (jnana) through five different channels: - our senses (mati) - external sources (scriptures, teachers etc.) (sruti) - extrasensory perception (clairvoyance, telepathy etc.) (avadhi) - direct perception of the consciousness of others (manah
paryaya) and - omniscience (kevala jnana). (9)
Five channels give us access to knowledge. Each channel offers us knowledge of a different scope and character.
The channels - the five types of knowledge - are listed in ascending order, i.e. each successive channel perceives more subtle and more comprehensive knowledge than the one preceding it.
The advanced channels far exceed the range of the senses and the mind - the only channels Western understanding officially approves. Though we constantly use the advanced 'unofficial channels in daily life, they carry the stigma of being suspicious.
Yet even if the West presently regards everything that works without the help of the senses as dubiously strange, this does not change the fact that the advanced channels are as available to us as the 'normal' ones.
Since their scope and precision reach far beyond anything our senses have access to, it doesn't make sense to refrain from using their immense potential only because some leaders of the contempo
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