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Distinctive search for data Logical thinking about the 'how and why' of the data Deeper analysis, appreciation and evaluation of results Mental determination of the manifestations such as recollection recognition, validation, implication, inference, retention, mental recording, and scriptural learning
Cognition of subjective qualities such as doubt, dreams and connotative activities These functions represent largely mental and subjective functions. Functioning of the mind begins with the second stage of speculation by acquiring sensory knowledge. Feeling and volition are generally taken as non-cognitive functions. They are instinctive. These include the major four below:
Food instinct effected by feeling-producing karma Fear instinct effected by deluding karma Sex instinct effected by deluding karma
Possessive instinct effected by deluding karma Jain texts describe a further twelve instincts.
Four passions due to deluding-karma Pleasure, pain, due to feeling-producing-karma Delusion, disgust and mourning due to deluding-karma Religiosity effected by different types of karma
Habitual and tradition-based feelings effected by deluding-karma. The above instincts are found in manifest or non-manifest forms in all mundane beings, including one-sensed beings and higher-sensed creatures such as animals. Jain texts describe humans and some five-sensed animals, which have a physical mind, as fully instinctive; all other animals are partially instinctive (asanjni).
This division is based on the criteria of the physical mind, which is not developed in the lower grade animals. Their activity is merely habitually instinctive and irrational, but, as far as psychic mind is concerned, it is not completely absent. Some, for e.g. plants, also possess the power of feeling and thinking to a certain degree as one-sensed creatures clearly exhibit feelings, reacting to adverse or favourable conditions. Jain scriptures claim that animals are also capable of receiving spiritual instruction.
Different Forms of Sensory Knowledge Sensory knowledge is macrocosmic in nature and is dependent upon specific karmic removal. It incorporates:
Knowledge that covers the present only Recollection that concerns memories of past impressions Recognition connects the past with contemporary knowledge Inductive reasoning that is a mental process of rational observation Deductive reasoning or inference that is a mental process of rational
concomitance The quality and the degree of sensory knowledge vary from person to person. For example, Srimad Rajchandra (Raychandbhai Mehta), the spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi, had a 'supermind'. Such capacities reflect the infinite range of sensory knowledge. Of course, the development of these capacities is due to the shedding of
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