The first is is tamas ("darkness"), which is obscurity, ignorance, and inertia; the second is rajas ("passion"), which is energy, emotion, and expansiveness; and the highest is sattva ("goodness"), which is illumination, enlightening knowledge, and lightness.
He uses Yogācāra terminology to present his own opinion, and uses a language to describe enlightened (and enlightening) knowledge that retains for it a separateness (through its freedom from all mental construction) from all other mental states.
Like the Third Eye, the Third Race possessed a wisdom, intuition, and enlightened knowledge the other two races lacked.
2. The investigation into tattva (Tib. de kho na) seeks an essential identity (Sk. sva-bhāva, Tib. rang gi ngo bo/rang bzhin) in a unique thing (Sk. bhāva, Tib. dngos po), and the investigation into tathatā (Tib. de bzhin nyid) an essential reality (ātman, Tib. bdag) uniting all things, particularly as the known objects of a single act of fully enlightened knowledge.
In 1969, she became the third woman (after Lady Bird Johnson and Oveta Culp Hobby) invited to become a member of the Academy of Texas, a society which recognized efforts to "enrich, enlarge or enlighten" knowledge in any field.
M. Flinders Petrie in Egypt; the French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan in Elam; the German Orientalist Hugo Winckler in Boğazköy (Anatolia); the French archaeologists Claude Schaeffer and C. Virolleaud in Ras Shamra (Ugarit); and other archaeologists greatly enlightened modern knowledge of the Greco-Roman and ancient Middle Eastern worlds.
I am always open to rigorous scientific facts that serve to enlighten my knowledge, but all too often the "facts" that are presented to me by my dissenters, seem to either lack the solid scientific support, or are biased by the industry.
While work with human tumor cell lines in mice has been enlightening, lack of knowledge about their repertoire of cancer genes as well as the inability to study the kinetics of spontaneous tumor progression in these models limit their usefulness.
Thus, detection of spectral modifications, changes in mass, structure, volume and conductivity, occurring in parallel with the redox transformations, complete the knowledge by enlightening secondary effects of the electrochemical perturbation.
For Shelley, building sympathetic connections between people is the way to build civil society and to increase knowledge: "knowledge, to enlighten and free the mind from clinging deadening prejudices a wider circle of sympathy with our fellow-creatures;—these are the uses of travel".
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