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The Five-fold Vrttis
SUTRAS 5 TO 11
5. Vrttayah paiicatayyah kli#akli,~fiih
Vrttis are five-fold, painful and painless.
6. Pramiif}a- viparyaya- vikalpa-nidra-smr tayah
The five-fold vrttis are: proof-based knowledge; illusion-based
knowledge; word-based knowledge; sleep-based knowledge and
memory-based knowledge.
7. Pratyaksanumanagamah Pramaf}ani
Pramanas [forms of proof-based or valid knowledge] are of three
kinds: direct sense knowledge, inferential knowledge, and
knowledge based on the authority of scriptures (agama).
8. Viparyayo mithyajiianama-tadrupa prati!ffham
~ 'iparyaya is false or illusory knowledge based on seeing things
having no existence in fact.
9. Sabdaji1ananupar/ vastul;hunyo Vika/pah
Vika/pa is knowledge based on words. which are devoid of reality.
10. Ahhayapratyayalambana-rrttirnidNI
Sleep is knowledge based on the experience of absence of things.
11. Anubrlutari!fayasarhpramo!fah sm!utih
\1emory is non-destruction or non-removal of the objects
experienced in the past.
'IOTES AND COMMENTS
Every movement of mind, or the arising of any ripple on the still
\vaters of the mind. is a vrtti. Vrtti is mind in interaction. Vrtti is the
~ource of all experience and knowledge. In fact vrtti, knowledge and
experience are just shades of one and the same thing. Initially. at some
point of time unknown to man, mind came into being as a product of