Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.193

c16.193

The Yoga-sūtras describe two principal stages of such cognition. In the first of these, the sense of interval between the word, its meaning, and its general significance disappears (*saṁkīrṇā*). It may be called discursive apprehension (*savitarkā samāpatti*). When the meaning is apprehended (*arthamātra-nirbhāsā*) without the aid of words (vāk-viyukto jñāyate), it is called non-discursive cognition (nirvitarkā samāpatti) [i, 43].