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    vidyā

    Root: vid Devanāgarī: विद्या Translation: any knowledge whether true or false; knowledge of the soul or spiritual knowledge; true knowledge; science, learning, scholarship, philosophy Opposite words:avidyā, ajñāna Related concepts:jñāna, ātman

    Appears in

    Sāṃkhya Kārikā:

    32

    Bhagavad Gītā:

    Chapter 9: title

    Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā:

    Chapter 1: 1 , 2


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    Commentaries around

    “The Saṃskāra of Yoga prepares one for Ātma Vidyā and is open to everyone.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 1

    “Avidyā is anything else other than Vidyā.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 3

    “We may have intellectual Vidyā,
    but in reality we follow some deeper force of Avidyā.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 3

    “The search for understanding is driven by misunderstanding,
    though not always in the right direction.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 5

    “Through Avidyā we see two as if one.
    Through Vidyā we know two is as if one.
    Hence before there can be a state of Yoga,
    there needs to be a process of Viyoga.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 17

    Asteya – non-stealing.
    It’s not taking away that
    which belongs to somebody else.
    Whether Dravya, Dharma, Karma, Vidyā.
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 37

    “‘What’ is it that identifies
    that we misidentify?”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 18

    “A Yogi is one in who Pariṇāma and Saṃskāra are in harmony.
    When there is no harmony there is the wrong
    combination of Pariṇāma and Saṃskāra.
    This is known as Avidyā or not knowing a thing as it is.
    The right combination is Vidyā.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Sāṃkhya and Yoga

    “Our action has two foundations.
    One, Vidyā never leads us into trouble.
    Two, Avidyā leads us into trouble
    because of something we did into the past
    influencing our present action.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    Question to TKV Desikachar on Pariṇāma:
    “Change is universal but not the same for everybody.
    Pariṇāma gives life to Saṃskāra.
    Saṃskāra gives stability to Pariṇāma.
    So there is an order in any change.
    If there is no Pariṇāma or Saṃskāra there is no Vidyā or Avidyā.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

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