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Clairvoyance or direct visual intuition is the third level of knowledge, where one can know things beyond the capability of the senses, which enables a person to know things or objects even at a distance of time or space, without their coming into contact with sense organs or mind. It is beyond the boundaries of ordinary awareness and faculties. If one looks or feels at a microscopic level and understands the microscopic truth that lies beneath, then he can develop awareness of more than the eyes can see, the ears can hear, the nose can smell, skin can feel or the tongue can taste, can see events or objects through an inner sight, develop an ability to view events before they occur, view past events, learn the history of an object by perception.
Clairvoyance can be acquired by a person who has purity of thought and developed his intuitive awareness by austerities.It is super sensory sensation and is very powerful. It reaches very far. Clairvoyance is possible in one whose Empiricalknowledge is rich. Clairvoyance is direct, whereone need not have to depend upon some external source to know about things but like empirical and articulate knowledge, Clairvoyance is also imperfect means of knowledge and prone to error. Subtle knowledge is not spiritual knowledge.
4. Mind Reading Knowledge is the direct knowledge of the state of mind of others. It means to know the mind. To look into different aspects of mind. One who can read his mind can also know its different layers because these are available. Basically, man is spirit, soul, or bio- energy. Because man is soul he creates energy,by thought. In Jainism thoughts are called pudgal (matter). It has sound. colour etc. It keeps
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