Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

Author(s): S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai

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THE TWO TYPES OF TELEPATHY
deteriorates in accordance with the growth or decline of right faith etc. Thus clairvoyance is of six kinds.
Clairvoyance has been explained in this way. Now telepathy should be described. Hence, with the intention of giving out its definition as well as its subdivisions, the author composes the next sutra. ऋजुविपुलमती मनःपर्ययः
123 11 Rjuvipulamatī manaḥparyayah
(23) 23. Rjumati and vipulamati are the two kinds of telepathy (manaḥparyaya).
Rju means produced and straight. Whereby is it produced ? It is produced by the knowledge of objects of speech, body and mind located in the minds of others. He who has straight telepathy is called rjumati. Vipulā means not produced and curved or winding. How is it not produced ? It is not produced by the knowledge of objects of speech, body and mind in the minds of others. He who has complex telepathy is called vipulamati. Rjuvipulamali is the compound formed of the two terms. Since one word mati is sufficient, it is not repeated in the sutra. Otherwise first a compound of rju and vipulā is formed-rjuvipule. Those who have rjuvipule mati are rjuvipulamati?.
This telepathy is of two kinds-rjumati and vipulamati. Now that the divisions of telepathy have been mentioned, it must be defined. Telepathy is that knowledge which knows the objects thought of by the minds of others, owing to the destruction-cum-subsidence of energy-obstructing and telepathy-obscuring karmas and depending on the attainment of namo karmas of limbs and minor limbs. If it be argued that it is only perception, it has been refuted already. The mind is merely for reference as the background. The object located in the mind of another is ascertained by this knowledge. So the mind is intended only as a background.
Of these two varieties, rjumati can extend from the minimum of two or three births of oneself and others up to a
1 Then the second compound is formed by combining this with mati. 8 These are two different types of compounds in Sanskrit.