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Hermann Kuhn
6- Changeable clairvoyance (anavasthita) is unsteady like the waves caused by the wind. It develops or deteriorates in the same degree as our notion of growth increases or declines.
Through clairvoyance we receive true as well as erroneous information.
During our last incarnation before liberation (moksa) the fleeting, decreasing and changeable varieties of clairvoyance do not arise any more.
SUTRA
ऋजुविपुलमती मनःपर्ययः ॥ २३ ॥
Rjuvvipulamati manahparyayah (23)
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Direct perception of contents present in the mind of others (manah-paryaya) occurs in two intensities, as: - simple direct knowledge (rijumati) and as - complex direct knowledge (vipulamati). (23)
Direct mental perception (manah-paryaya) is a state of our consciousness where we perceive the mental activity of someone else immediately in our own consciousness. Once this channel is activated, the boundaries that normally exist between the consciousness of two people fall away. Any communication through external means (words, gestures etc.) becomes irrelevant during this period, and distance in space also ceases to be an obstruction.
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