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Answer : It is a matter of common experience that the effects are of multifarious types. Who does not know that a being born in the class of birds acquires the capacity to fly in the air as soon as it is born in this class, while, on the other hand, one does not acquire the capacity to fly in the air by a mere birth in the class of human beings—unless, of course, one takes recourse to an aeroplane etc. ? Or take another example. Certain persons happen to possess poetic power ever since their birth, while certain others do not come in possession of it except through a special endeavour on their part.
Avadhi-jñāna to be found among the animals and human beings is of six kinds viz.—ānugāmika or that which accompanies, anānugāmika or that which does not accompany, vardhamana or that which increases, hīyamāna or that which decreases, avasthita or that which remains constant, anavasthita or that which does not remain constant.
(1) Just as the colour applied to a thing like a piece of cloth etc. when placed at a particular place remains attached to this thing even when it is transferred to another place, similarly, avadhi-jñāna which continues to belong to the being concerned even when he leaves the place where this jñāna was generated and transfers himself to another place is ānugāmika.
(2) Just as some person's knowledge of astrology is such that he can correctly answer a question when seated at one particular place but not when seated at another place, similarly avadhi-jñāna which ceases to belong to the being concerned when he leaves the place where this jñāna was generated is anānugāmika.
' (3) Just as the spark of fire produced by a match-stick or a piece of churning wood is extremely small in bulk and yet it undergoes gradual augmentation as a result of consuming more and more dry fuel etc., similarly avadhi-jñāna which covers few objects at the time of its generation but gradually comes to cover more and more of them as there is augmentation in the spiritual purification of the being concerned is vardhamana.
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