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psychic activities or activities of consciousness it becomes manifest and perceptible through the medium of body. It manifests itself in two ways: by way of power and knowledge. Whereas the matter also has the feature of power it does not possess knowledge and thus knowledge and not power or motion serves as a dividing line between the soul and non-soul. Soul is the knower and the enjoyer, while non-soul is the known and the enjoyed, perceived by the soul through the senses.
Spirituality is a journey of disengaging the knower from the world of physics and engaging the knower in knowing or realizing the self. Knower has characteristics explicitly different than those of the known, also termed matter. Mind, intellect and psyche are not the knower but can be considered its reflections. The knower cannot be known physically as it does not follow physical laws. It is beyond any physical means of detection because it is nonphysical or metaphysical.
The presence of knower in a body means the presence of perception ability. The body that houses the knower is physical and thus obeys laws of physics. The sense organs through which we take the world in, i.e., know about it, are highly evolved and sophisticated physical systems. We normally tend to attribute perception to these organs but perception to them because of presence of consciousness, i.e., the knower in them. The knower and the known thus form two mutually exclusive worlds. The world of known is the world of physics where we have amassed huge knowledge of things that can be known. But in this world the knower becomes unknown as it is out of focus.
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