Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.194

c16.194

The latter mode of insight, again, has its own dialectic. (i) When the meaning thus grasped leads to concrete phases of experience that distribute themselves in time and space (deśa-kāla-nimitta-anubhava-avachchhinna) [i, 44 (*Bhāsvatī*)], it is called discriminative insight (*savichāra*). (ii) Where the meanings are apprehended without any reference to the space-time and the cause-effect schema, in the manner of Platonic ideas, it is called non-discursive insight (nirvichāra-samāpatti).