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Hermann Kuhn
The inhabitants of celestial and infernal regions are clairvoyant and telepathic by birth.
These abilities are a fundamental feature of their actual level of existence. They do not arise from the dissolution of karma. Any karma that blocks clairvoyance on other levels of existence becomes latent, inactive for the time spent in celestial or infernal regions.
Though the ability is inborn, devas and narakas do not all possess the same degree of clairvoyance. The differences mirror their individual degree of development. As human beings perceive right or flawed knowledge through their senses51, the devas and narakas also may take in right or wrong knowledge through clairvoyance.
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क्षयोपशमनिमित्तः षडुविकल्पः शेषाणाम् ॥ २२ ॥
Ksayopasama nimittah sadvikalpah sesanam (22)
Upon the dissolution of the respective karmas human beings and animals manifest six types of clairvoyance (avadhi). (22)
Clairvoyance and telepathy are blocked by several types of karma. The strongest block prevents the rising of clairvoyance in the first place. The weaker blocks interfere with the clarity in which we experience clairvoyance and telepathy.
Clairvoyance and telepathy arise either by the complete dissolution of the respective karmic bonds, or when these
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