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13 SUBDIVISIONS OF DARŚANAOBSCURING AND VEDANIYA
KARMA
Meaning of Darasana
Darśana, as already mentioned, means detailless knowledge, you simply know a thing as belonging to a class, without going into its attributes or ways of behaving : in iñāna (knowledge) you know the ins and outs to some extent. Detailed knowledge is jñāna. Nine Subdivisions of Darsana-obscuring Karma
There are the following 9 subdivisons of this 2nd Class of karma, namely :
1. Karma which obscures the darśana which is received through the eye.
2. Karma which obscures the darśana received through any sense other than the eye, (ear, nose, tongue or skin).
3. Karna which obscures the avadhidarśana. 4. Karma which obscures the kevaladarśana.
In the following five states the senses are not active, and therefore you do not see, or hear, or smell, etc. The sleep states in their various degrees are among these states.
5. Sleep from which a person can be awakened without any trouble, simply by calling his name; he will hear his name but will not hear other conversation or sounds.
6. Sleep in which you have to touch the body of the person in order to awaken him; it is strong sleep; the consciousness has been fatigued so much that it requires a fair stimulus to wake the man up.
7. The consciousness goes to sleep while the body is sitting; a very strong degree of sleep.
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