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    prajñā

    Devanāgarī: प्रज्ञा Translation: special knowing; insight; wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, discrimination, judgement Similar words:jñāna, vijñāna, saṃjñā, saṃprajñāta, prajñāta

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 1: 20 , 48 , 49
    Chapter 2: 27
    Chapter 3: 5

    Bhagavad Gītā:

    Chapter 2: 54


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    Commentaries around

    “Samādhi is a state of mind and an
    understanding that arises from it.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 18

    “In Samādhi there is an understanding.
    Something not based on your memories,
    something that transcends your memories.
    Prajña comes only in Samādhi.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 20

    “To discern what can become knowing,
    we may need to give up what can be believed.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 48

    “When even the tendency of insight
    is contained, all is contained;
    this is integration without seed.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 51

    “Pratyāhāra is not feeding the tendency of the Citta
    to automatically form a positive, negative, or neutral
    identification with whatever stimuli the senses present to it.
    From that, we can begin to understand how their external gathering
    activities stimulate our conscious and especially, unconscious choices.
    From this, we can begin to understand how the impact
    of this sensory knowing can lead us to travel in different directions
    and trigger different levels of response, often without us being really
    conscious of how deeply their input stimulates our psychic activities.
    From these responses, there will be the inevitable re-actions,
    again quite possibly unconscious and multilevelled,
    according to our psychic history in terms of our memory,
    habit patternings and deeper memory processes.
    From those initial insight, we can begin to understand
    and interact in how we can resist unconsciously slipping
    into the trance states that can so often culminate with
    the  Kleśa manifesting fully in the entrancing dance of
    Udārā Rāga, or Udārā Dveṣa, or Udārā Abhiniveśa,
    the potent and profligate children of Avidyā.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54

    “From Meditation
    arises Integration.
    The Splendour of Knowing
    Connective Moments of
    Containment within the Psyche.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter 3 verse 3

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