Nyaya Science of Thought

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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NYAYA.
(iii) that he should have completely conquered his lower uature, and
(iv) tbat he should have destroyed the bondage of the four kinds of his ghâtiya* karmas.
OHAPTER XVII. Mati jõâna, to be distinguished from ku-mati (false mati jñana), arises from the functioning of senses and mind, the former furnishing the raw material for thought and the latter converting it into ascertained truth.
Ku-mati includes all kinds of false and erroneous ideas and notions which may be entertained by thinking beings.
The first step of mati jñana consists in darśana or pure sensing, that is in an undifferencing, detailless cognition of the general features of a thing. This results in the acquisition of knowledge of the class to which the object belongs. Attention then comes into play, and engages itself in marking out the details and features of distinction of the object of enquiry, so that when analysis has furnished all the necessary or required particulars of a thing, intellect sums up (synthesis) the result of the investigation and the culmination of thought, i.e., the ascertainment of truth, is reached.
*These are: (1) jñâ nävaraniya, (2) darsanâ —varaniya, mohaniya and antara ya.