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HERMANN KUHN
SUTRAS
SUTRA 14 तदिन्द्रियानिन्द्रियनिमित्तम् ॥ १४ ॥ Tadindriyanindriya nimittam (14) Sensory knowledge (mati) is triggered by our senses and the mind. (14)
Knowledge is the very nature of consciousness.
We therefore should be able to gain access to every kind of knowledge just by directing our attention to that part of our consciousness that contains all we want to know.
Yet our (emotional) attachment to limiting ideas, error, prejudices, laziness etc. - karma - partially blocks our ability to perceive and to understand. This is the very reason why we sometimes do not comprehend knowledge though it is directly before us.39 While in this restricted state, we need instruments to access the insights we desire. - The instruments for perceiving knowledge about our material environment are our sense-organs (indriyas). They make us aware of those parts of our consciousness that focus on matter. But this is only the outermost layer of our perception. - For perceiving meaning behind the material data taken in by our
senses, we need an organ (our mind - anindriya) that gives us access to understanding BEYOND the range of our sense-organs. Our senses perceive their objects up to a limited degree of material subtlety. Their perception keeps constant for longer periods.
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39 At one time or the other we all experienced that we were searchir
the solution to a problem and later realized that the answer was right before us all the time. We could not see it as long as we attached ourselves to flawed ideas how the solution should look like.
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