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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
Kerala-jñāna : full or perfect knowledge, which is the soul's characteristic in its pure and undefiled condition (76).
Fulse Knowledge The first three kinds of knowledge, 1.e. senseknowledge, study-knowledge, and knowledge of the past, may also be perverted or false. The senses may deceive us; our studies may be incomplete or erroneous ; and the angel's vision of the remote or past may not be perfect in detail or clearness (77).
But mind-knowing cannot be false. We camot have it, imless we can have knowledge of the exact thought or feeling in another's mind.
Full or perfect knowledge obviously cannot be false.
Before we take up the five forms of knowledge separately, it is interesting to compare them with the five « bodies" in Jainism (supra, pp. 42-5).
The five kinds of bodies, we remember, are: audūrika, or the physical body ; vaikriyika, or the angelic body of angels and denizens of hell; ūhāraka, the special body emanating from a saint to resolve his doubts; taijast, or magnetic body; kārmana, or karmic body.
These five bodies are distributed as follows: a man has the physical, magnetic, and karmic bodies : an angel has the angelic, magnetic, and karmic bodies.
This accounts for four, the remaining āhāraka being a special body manifested in a saint temporarily and for a special purpose.
Now the five kinds of knowledge may be considered thus in relation to the five kinds of bodies :
Man with his physical body acquires sense-know
