Light of the Soul - Daily: Tuesday, 18th of March Book 2 - Sutra 27 27. The knowledge (or illumination) achieved is sevenfold, and is attained progressively. Excerpt: The Hindu teaching holds that the states of mind-consciousness are seven in number. The sixth sense and its use bring about seven modes of thought, or - to put it more technically - there are seven major modifications of the thinking principle. These are: [1. Desire for knowledge 2. Desire for freedom 3. Desire for happiness 4. Desire to do ones duty 5. Sorrow 6. Fear 7. Doubt 1-6. see prior posts] 7. Doubt. This is one of the most interesting of the modifications for it concerns causes more than effects. The man who doubts can be described perhaps as doubting himself as an arbiter of his fate, his fellowmen as to their nature and reactions, God, or the first cause as witnessed by the controversies built up around religion and its exponents, nature itself, which doubt urges him on to constant scientific investigation and finally, the mind itself. When he begins to question the capacity of the mind to explain, interpret and comprehend, he has practically exhausted the sum total of his resources in the three worlds. [next post will be all 7 in review]
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