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.

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.

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…

…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.

…'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.