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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
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what extent we now put our new insights into action is theme of the next stages of development.
- To allow pramana to influence our life (vidhana). -
To integrate an experience into our life means far more than merely accepting it as we did in step two (svamitva).
As we reach this last step, we have gained a far more intimate insight into our new experience than in step two. We now know how the experience enriches us and integrate it into our life. This is a natural process that follows automatically from the broadness of insight the new experience opened within us.
EXAMPLE: We purposely apply our notion of growth to explore unknown regions of our consciousness. We employ this ability in the same natural way as we e.g. walk or read. This integration in our life now opens up the entire dimension of the notion of growth.
SUTRA 8 सत्संख्याक्षेत्रस्पर्शनकालान्तरभावाल्पबहुत्वैश्च ॥ ८ ॥ Sat sankhya ksetra sparsana kalantara bhavalpabahutvaisca (8) pramana perceives - the existence (sat) - the qualities, features and functions (sankhya) - the place of manifestation (kshetra) - the immediate sense-experience (sparshana) - the time and duration of manifestation (kala)
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