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Parikṣāmukham
69 and Kevala' and Jñāna as already expounded in commentaries of previous aphorisms in this work is of eight kinds viz. Mati, Śruta, Avadhi, Manaḥparyaya and Kevala and false knowledges of Mati, Śruta and Avadhi.
In Darśana, details are not perceived but in Jñāna details are perceived. “Before we know things in a detailed way, there is the stage where we simply see, hear, or otherwise become conscious of it in a general way without going into its ins and outs. This is the first state of knowledge : it may be called indefinite cognition (Darśana ). If this stage is not experienced, there can be no knowledge of the thing”. In Jñāna, there is cognition of details.
Jain philosophy lays down that there are certain classes of Karma which obscure the four kinds of Darsana as well as the eight kinds of Jñāna. "Darśana is of four kinds : Chakşu, Achakşu, Avadhi and Kevala ;-so there are also four kinds of Karma which obscure each of these varieties. When there is a cessation or mitigation (Kşayopaśama) of one or more of these varieties of Karma, the corresponding class or classes of Darśana is or are evolved. Thus by the removal of these Karmas, which obscure the Darsana which is received through the eye, a Jiva can see through the eyes. This is Chakşu Darsana ( Darsana through the eye ). Again, by the removal of that Karma which obscures the Darśana through any sense other than the eye, or mind, a Jiva can cognize through the four organs of sense-ear, nose, tongue or skin and through the mind.
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जीवस्स सव्वकालं अणण्णभूदं वियाणीहि ॥ दसणमवि चकखुजुदं अचखुजुदमवि य ओहिणा सहियं । अणिधणमणंतविसयं केवलियं चावि पण्णत्तं ॥"
Panchāstikāyasamayasāra 40, 42. "उवओगो दुवियप्पो दसण णाणं च दंसणं चदुधा।
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