Vijñāna
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
vijñāna · antaryāmin · prāṇa · virāj
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Paramārthasāra
The sequence of conventional designations (discriminative knowing, Inner Controller, vital breath, Cosmic Person, body, genus, individual) through which the one Self is variously named.
Discriminative knowing (vijñāna), the Inner Controller (antaryāmin), the vital breath (prāṇa), the Cosmic Person (virāj), the body, [the level of] genus, and finally the [individual] lump — these conventional designations (vyavahāra) regarding that Self are but particular states [of it].
Spreading himself out, like a net, through the endless distinctions beginning with the vital breath, Vāsudeva [then] withdraws [it again] by his own power, as though at play.
Untouched by the host of {{guṇa|qualities}}s, the instruments, the body, the vital breaths, the subtle elements, [the level of] genus, and pleasure and pain — this [Self], all-pervading, of the nature of consciousness, is ever stainless.
Brahmabindūpaniṣad
Realized, discriminative knowledge said to dwell within every being like ghee hidden in milk, to be drawn out by the mind.
Like ghee hidden within milk, vijñāna (realized, discriminative knowledge) dwells in every single being;