Ashtanga Yoga by Gregor Maehle

Author:Gregor Maehle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781577319863
Publisher: New World Library

I.48 There the wisdom is truthful (rtambhara).

The quality of the wisdom (prajna) gained in super-reflective samapatti is described now. It is said to be truthful (rtambhara). Rta is an old terminology that had appeared already in the Rig Veda. It refers to sacred order. What is meant here is that one sees things at the deepest level in their such-ness and not how we believe or want them to be.

Vyasa explains that rtambhara means complete truth, mixed with not even the slightest bit of untruth. He explains that this highest yoga is reached in three steps: studying the sacred scriptures, inference, and constant meditation practice. This echoes the dictum of the Brhad Aranyaka Upanishad, according to which consciousness (Brahman) is attained through three steps. Here they are called shravanna (repeated listening to the truth), manana (reflecting on the truth), and nidhidhyasana (realizing or permanently being established in the truth).

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