PRATYAKSH ANUMAN AAGAM PRAMANANI
DIRECT PERCEPTION,INFERENCE (INDIRECT) AND TESTIMONY, ARE THE WAYS TO GET KNOWLEDGE.
In this5 sutra we are told about the 1st of the 5 vrities or the tendencies . So how do we get the 'knowledge'? The answer is it could be direct or indirect or it could be told to us by someone that 'knows'.
The Direct way is the one which we all tend to believe . So When I have seen a car and I see it I can recognise it as a car. If I see a snake , I can know that it is snake . I don't need anyone to tell me that this is a snake . But our eyes can be deceived and the conclusion that we draw, after seeing something or someone can be wrong . But I could be wrong as the snake that I saw can be a rope. Think about a magic show . The magician makes thing appear and disappear. But is it a reality?So this is not the best way.If we look in the sky and look at the moon, it does not look bigger than our palm. But in reality it is much larger . And what about the other planets that are larger than our earth, they do not appear to be large at all.
The Indirect way is the other way that we get the information or the knowledge.The standard example is that of smoke and the fire . If we see smoke , then there must be a fire , even though we may not see the fire . But this conclusion can be wrong. What we see and conclude as smoke , may be actually fog and so there may be no fire. These are the things that we can at least see. But what about the things like love or hatred or shy. These things can not be seen but only concluded by person's behaviour only.So here we have no choice.
Testimony is the third way of to get the knowledge. This is the best way .When a knowledgeable person tells us , we believe it . Lot of people have difficulty with this type of knowledge as they want to experience it themselves.We have no problem accepting that the time is not a fixed measurement, but can be stopped or slowed ,as it was stated by Einstein But if someone says that this was told by Jesus or by someone who was 'realised' soul , then we have thousand questions . We want it to be experienced by our self . But we don't want to put the hard efforts that will be needed to experience it our self.
DIRECT PERCEPTION,INFERENCE (INDIRECT) AND TESTIMONY, ARE THE WAYS TO GET KNOWLEDGE.
In this5 sutra we are told about the 1st of the 5 vrities or the tendencies . So how do we get the 'knowledge'? The answer is it could be direct or indirect or it could be told to us by someone that 'knows'.
The Direct way is the one which we all tend to believe . So When I have seen a car and I see it I can recognise it as a car. If I see a snake , I can know that it is snake . I don't need anyone to tell me that this is a snake . But our eyes can be deceived and the conclusion that we draw, after seeing something or someone can be wrong . But I could be wrong as the snake that I saw can be a rope. Think about a magic show . The magician makes thing appear and disappear. But is it a reality?So this is not the best way.If we look in the sky and look at the moon, it does not look bigger than our palm. But in reality it is much larger . And what about the other planets that are larger than our earth, they do not appear to be large at all.
The Indirect way is the other way that we get the information or the knowledge.The standard example is that of smoke and the fire . If we see smoke , then there must be a fire , even though we may not see the fire . But this conclusion can be wrong. What we see and conclude as smoke , may be actually fog and so there may be no fire. These are the things that we can at least see. But what about the things like love or hatred or shy. These things can not be seen but only concluded by person's behaviour only.So here we have no choice.
Testimony is the third way of to get the knowledge. This is the best way .When a knowledgeable person tells us , we believe it . Lot of people have difficulty with this type of knowledge as they want to experience it themselves.We have no problem accepting that the time is not a fixed measurement, but can be stopped or slowed ,as it was stated by Einstein But if someone says that this was told by Jesus or by someone who was 'realised' soul , then we have thousand questions . We want it to be experienced by our self . But we don't want to put the hard efforts that will be needed to experience it our self.
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