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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS
comes to know distant material things without the action of the senseorgans or the mind, operates while the senses are awake, and is in addition to and not replacing the ordinary five senses. All the higher forms of knowing are in addition to the lower forms, the lower forms do not drop away as the higher ones develop; the five ways of knowing given are simply the order in which the soul developes itself. All knowledge is based on sensation. Objective side and Subjective side.
In every activity of a living being in the embodied state, there are two sides, an objective and a subjective side. In the activity of sensation, there are the two sides, the objective side and the subjective side (internal side), the objective organs of sensation (eyes, nose, etc.), and the subjective organs of sensation, each having many subdivisions. Mind
When consciousness is only representing something to itself or comparing ideas, then another instrument has to be used, and this is ‘manas' (mind), and it is only found in living beings having five organs of sensation. (As before mentioned, this doctrine of karma applies to all living beings, and not merely to man.) The mind has also two sides, objective and subjective. Two Aspects of knowledge
All knowledge itself has two aspects or points of view, namely the right and the wrong. One person forms a judgment, perhaps, about another person, and it is a wrong judgment. And until we get the habit or the ability of assuming the right attitude, we cannot form right judgments. Five stages of Matijñāna
With reference to the first form of knowledge, or matijñāna, we now come to the different stages of this form of knowledge, the process.
There are five stages in the process, namely :
1. In this first stage, what takes place is the establishment of the relation of contact between the organs of sensation and the vibrations from the extemal object in the external world.
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