para vidya
परा विद्या parā vidyāThe higher knowledge, by which the imperishable Brahman is known, distinguished in the Mundaka Upanishad from apara vidya, the lower knowledge of the Vedas and their sciences.
Where this term appears
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
And there is para-vidya , the higher knowing, by which the imperishable is reached, and which cannot be handed over in a sentence because it is not information at all.
- The Limbs Treatise
"The higher knowledge," para vidya , the higher knowledge, "is that by which the Indestructible," the imperishable, "is apprehended," is known.
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
The Mundaka Upanishad, a verse text of the Atharva Veda in three chapters (mundakas), opens by dividing all learning into a higher knowledge (para vidya), by which…