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postulates and never under any cover accept their axioms or proofs.‖ He further states that ―these forces have had their main say and man is seeking a philosophy for man rather than a truth about reality.‖
He contends that the basic discovery is the discovery of the nature of the individual who is the knower and for whom knowledge is necessary. Toeing line with the traditional Indian philosophers, he examines the knowledge arising out of sensory inputs, the inferences we make out of such inputs and the contents of dreams consisting of non sensory inputs and not dependant on our inferences and where our logic is suspended. He adds further the nature of deep sleep which is beyond understanding as a source of getting knowledge. After having listed these modes of knowledge, he says there is need to integrate the four states of consciousness and the knowledge that is generated from them. He contends that the fourth state of deep sleep or turiya as it is called in Upanishads is the base of all. ̳The sensory itself would undergo changes even as the dream would open up extra- sensory or manasic possibilities and the subject
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