What is Knowledge : Ch-4. Part-5.

Chapter 4 : Yoga – An Integration of Consciousness.

Part-5.

This is something like what goes by the name of 'intuition', in a very, very specific sense. It is a direct entry into the object, so-called, of consciousness – an object, which need not necessarily be a physical something.

By 'object', we have to understand here anything that lies outside consciousness as the content thereof.

A content which cannot be assimilated into consciousness but remains outside it somehow, with which the consciousness has to struggle to establish a sort of relationship – this is our present life.

We know very well that the world of people, the world of things, the world of nature, is outside our consciousness; and yet, we cannot rest quiet by merely being aware that it is outside our consciousness.

We are terribly insecure by being aware that there is something outside the purview of our consciousness, and we wish to abolish this insecure feeling in us by imagining that this object is not outside us.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..

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