viveka

Then, in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, a Kashmiri scholar named Jayaratha wrote his Viveka , a commentary that runs beside the whole vast text and makes it legible.

Its instrument is viveka , discrimination, the relentless sorting of the real from the unreal, until the seeker penetrates the last illusion, the illusion of being a small separate self, and directly realises t…

At its highest it becomes viveka , discrimination, the power to tell the real from the unreal, the lasting from the passing, which the whole path of knowledge depends on.

…eparate milk from water when the two are mixed, the perfect emblem of viveka , the discernment that tells the true from the false.

It is the text Volume 3 named at multiple points and the text Jayaratha would write his great Viveka commentary on, a century later.

The earliest of the three is Jayaratha Rajanaka - the same Jayaratha who is famous in the broader Indological scholarship as the Viveka commentator on Abhinavagupta’s Tantraloka .

Markandeya, it says, stands for viveka , discrimination; Yama for moha , delusion; the rope Yama throws for the absence of enquiry; the boy's fear for the sense of duality.

…a's remedy is not ritual and not devotion but knowledge, specifically viveka , discrimination, the clear and unwavering knowledge that distinguishes consciousness from everything that is not consciousness.