discriminative knowledge
“viveka-jñāna”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
discriminative discernment · viveka-jñāna · vivekajñāna · vivekakhyāti
spoken of as
1 expressionVivekajñāna / Vivekakhyāti“discriminative knowledge”1 mention
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana (Sanskrit)
—since the other [forms of] knowledge do not directly remove self-conceit.
in the texts
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The discriminating knowledge of the difference between puruṣa and prakṛti, held to be the direct cause of liberation.
"I am not [an agent], nothing is mine, [this is] not-I" — complete, free from error, pure, and absolute knowledge arises.
Superior to both is the [remedy that comes] from the discriminative knowledge of the vyakta / avyakta (the manifest and the unmanifest) and the puruṣa (knower).
By that [knowledge] the puruṣa (self) beholds prakṛti / pradhāna / mūlaprakṛti (nature), who has ceased to produce and, her purpose [accomplished], has withdrawn from the seven forms — [he beholds her] poised like a spectator, fully at ease.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Discriminative knowledge/discernment (vivekajñāna/vivekakhyāti), argued to be the sole direct cause of liberation, as against yogic non-conceptual intuition or the mere experience of bliss.
—since the other [forms of] knowledge do not directly remove self-conceit.
—and by these Gītā statements it is declared that {{vivekajñāna|discriminative knowledge}} alone is the cause of liberation.
[there is no] other supreme [reality]," and so on, it is declared that there is no teaching higher than the teaching of discrimination.