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Each individual is in possession of his own experience. Experience based on right understanding will prove his best friend. Empirical knowledge is contemplative.
Articulate knowledge is passed on through words and reason. Knowledge which is fit for articulation and making others to understand it, is Articulate knowledge. Words of spiritual leaders who have vanquished all attachment of the world is also classified as articulate knowledge. Their experience will mark the beginning of our own journey.
Empirical and Articulate knowledge are closely related like milk and water. No individual or living being can be totally devoid of or bereft of empirical knowledge and articulate. These two are indirect means of knowledge since one has to depend upon some external source such as the senses or the mind to know things. These knowledges are not free from errors. A person who knows through his senses can know only apparent things he cannot know the subtle truth.
Mind is all-pervasive, i.e. it pervades over the whole body.The difference between knowing by the senses and by the mind is that the senses come to know only the present mode of a substance, while the mind can know the manifold forms belonging to all the phases of time the present, the past and the future of material and non-material objects. The mind can come to know even without the help of the senses. The mind is endowed with the ability to think in manifold ways.
Mahavira said, "One who sees his birth, can see the occurrences of his past lives."
To resolve, to discriminate and decide, to arrogate, to remember or recollect are four phases of mind. Memory of the past life is a type of empirical
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