discriminative knowledge
“viveka-jñāna”
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discriminative discernment · viveka-jñāna · vivekajñāna · vivekakhyāti
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1 expressionVivekajñāna / Vivekakhyāti“discriminative knowledge”1 mention
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana (Sanskrit)
through hearing the true scriptures and the grace of a teacher, free of doubt, when {{vivekajñāna|discriminative knowledge}} has arisen, it is liberated.
in the texts
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The discriminating knowledge of the difference between puruṣa and prakṛti, held to be the direct cause of liberation.
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beholds prakṛti / pradhāna / mūlaprakṛti (nature), who has ceased to produce and, her purpose [accomplished], has withdrawn from the seven forms — [he beholds her] poised like a spectator, fully at ease.
"I am not [an agent], nothing is mine, [this is] not-I" — complete, free from error, pure, and absolute knowledge arises.
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.
through hearing the true scriptures and the grace of a teacher, free of doubt, when {{vivekajñāna|discriminative knowledge}} has arisen, it is liberated.
And the non-conceptual (nirvikalpaka) knowledge of the Self that arises through yoga becomes a cause of liberation only by way of {{vivekajñāna|discriminative knowledge}}, not directly—because it does not [itself] remove nescience.
—and by these Gītā statements it is declared that {{vivekajñāna|discriminative knowledge}} alone is the cause of liberation.