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METAPHYSICS : XV B. RIGHT KNOWLEDGE
ledge and study-knowledge. Also with his physical body he acquires, e.g. by means of austerities, knowledge of the remote. With his magnetic body he acquires knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others. It is literally sympathy, on the analogy of symphony between chords or strings in music, which are tuned exactly alike. If a man's magnetic body is in the same tune with another's, the thoughts and feelings of the one will meet with a ready response in the other. It is ereryday observation that a mother or a devoted wife anticipates and exactly realizes the needs or wishes of her beloved children or husband. With his karmic body the man acquires full knowledge. And it must be remembered always, that acquisition of knowledge means the removal of knowledge-obscuring karmas, the gradual demolition of the karmic body. The matter of the other bodies acts simply like the workman employed to demolish the karmic structure; as soon as his work is accomplished, he is automatically dismissed. So, as soon as the bondage of karma is severed, the physical and angelic bodies fall off, and the magnetic and karmic bodies await their definite final dissolution before the eternal soul is set free in mokshi.
To take the five kinds of knowledge in detail
Jati-jñāna, or sense-knowledge, is also called smriti, sumjñā, chintā, ubkinibodhi. It is acquired (1) by means of the five senses, (2) by means of the mind.
It is divided into four parts1. Arugraha, perception, taking up the object of
