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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
3- evaluation of the perception (avaya)
4- consolidating and retaining the perception and its evaluation in our memory (dharana). (15)
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1- Apprehension (avagraha) is the first conscious recognition of an object after its contact with the sense-organs.
This process is preceded by darshana. darshana is a highly delicate experience that arises before the actual perception-process (avagraha) even starts.
darshana is the experience that arises at that particular moment when our senses are in contact with an object for the first time, but do not react to this sensation yet.
At that point in time darshana decides whether a 'tendency towards an object' will arise in the first place. Here the real selection-process happens that permits only a few of the billions of stimuli presented to our senses and mind to get through to our consciousness. Here on this fundamental level it is determined whether a stimulus will develop into perception and possibly become an insight later.
darshana is influenced by all the concepts and patterns that we installed between reality and our consciousness. This filter permits contact with only those events and objects that resonate in our consciousness. Everything else might well exist and might even meet our senses, but because of this filter will never reach our perception and is thereby closed out to our conscious
ness.
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