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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
bonds become temporarily inactive. In the second case we experience clairvoyance for some time, but loose it again.
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Clairvoyance arises when we dispel the prejudices and misconceptions that prevent us to perceive (i.e. when we dissolve our respective obstructing karmas), - and by recognizing and amplifying this special perception each time it occurs. Once we activate our notion of growth (samyag darshana) it automatically identifies the activities that will further the rising of clairvoyance and telepathy.
Since devas and narakas also experience clairvoyance (by their respective karmas receding into an inactive state), the sutra specially emphasizes that human beings and animals obtain this ability by their own efforts only and not by birth. There are six kinds of clairvoyance):
1 - Accompanying clairvoyance (anugami) is not lost, even if we move from one place to another or from one incarnation to the next.
2- Fleeting clairvoyance (ananugami) is lost when place or circumstances change.
3 - Increasing clairvoyance (vardhamana) recognizes ever more comprehensive areas of life. It develops in the same degree in which our notion of growth grows. The growth of this type of clairvoyance is not limited.
4- Decreasing clairvoyance (hiyamana) declines in the same degree as our notion of growth decreases. The areas we cognize are more and more reduced until almost no clairvoyant abilities are left.
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5- Steady clairvoyance (avasthita) neither increases nor decreases. It maintains the same degree in which it originated. Its scope and steadiness correspond to the stability and intensity of our notion of growth.
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