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Our mind functions differently. It is neither restricted in subtlety, nor does it stay long on one single object (our attention constantly jumps from one object to another).
The combination of these two factors - our perception of material components and their evaluation - produces sensory knowledge (mati).
The mind is also called the 'inner sense-organ'. Its evaluations of events, situations, recollection etc. functions independent of our senses.
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3rquè EGRIER UIT: || 94 11 Avagrahehavaya dharanah (15) Sensory knowledge develops in four stages: 1 - apprehension (avagraha) 2 - forming a first idea of what we perceived (iha) 3 - evaluation of our perception (avaya) 4 - consolidating and storing the perception and its evaluation in
our memory (dharana). (15)
1 - Apprehension (avagralia) is our first conscious recognition of an object after it contacted our sense-organs.
Yet apprehension is not the very first contact our senses experience. Apprehension is preceded by darslana - a highly delicate subconscious process that takes place before the actual perceptionprocess even starts.
darshana is an experience that arises at that particular moment when our senses come in contact with an object for the first time, but do not react to this sensation yet.
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