Day 7 of #yogasutrachallenge: YS 1.7 Pratyaksa anumana agamah pramanani

Day 7 of #yogasutrachallenge: YS 1.7 Pratyaksa anumana agamah pramanani. My interpretation: Correct knowledge comes from sense perception, logic or verbal testimony. Have you ever felt as though a piece of music has touched your soul when you’ve heard it? Or been completely overwhelmed by the beauty piece of art? As if you truly ‘know’ what it’s saying without needing any further explanation? In this sutra, Patañjali describes three ways in which accurate knowledge can come about. Of these, the most important way is sensory perception through direct experience. If you’ve seen something clearly with your own eyes, heard it with your own ears, you just know it’s true. That’s also why I think great art and music are so important to us – I think from time to time they somehow touch on something so universally true that purusha (pure consciousness) can recognise itself within it, reminding us of its existence...

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