Sthaviravali

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha

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If a man is thinking, for instance, about a pot, a Yogi or an ascetic with Riju-inati labdhi, can only know that the particular individual is thinking about a pot, if the pot exists within four to eigbt Yojans and also if it relates to two or three past or future incarnations and at the most to seven or eight such incarnations, without any reference to the particular attributes of the pot, as regards Dravya 57 Substance, Kshetra 99 Place, Kāla fila Time, and Bhāva Hin Quality.
9. Vipula-mati fagnafo is complex direct knowledge of complex mental things e-g, of what a man is thinking about, now along with what he has thought of it, in the past and will think of it in future.
Complex mental knowledge knows, what has been thought of in the past and will be thought of in the future. It is of six kinds, as it knows matter and form of thought about simple and complex activity of body, mind and speech thought of by another,
Complex mental knowledge is purer than simple mental knowledge. This purity relates to Dravya 51 Subject-matter Kshetra 87 Space, Kāla in Time and Bhāva 19 Quality, of things known.
Complex mental knowledge relates to from. 7 or 8 to innumerable incarnations.
As to place, complex mental knowledge extends from 4 or 8 Yojans to Adhi Dvipa artikla two and a half continents.
Difference between Visual and Mental knowledge.
The differences between visual and mental knowledge relate to their purity, place, person of inherènce, and subject-matter.
· 1. Manah-paryaya Handla mental is purer than Avadhi Jnāna uma Visual knowledge.