Jnana Yoga
The unconventional view


   The Sanskrit word jnana is derived from the verb jna, meaning to know. In other words, jnana means: function of knowing.
    The Sanskrit word yoga is derived from the verb yuj, meaning (or assumed to mean) to 'link together', 'bind closely', 'harness', 'yoke'. In other words, yoga means: the function of linking or binding together ...... with the intention of eliminating looseness, relative movement or turbulence. That which is bound together, hence fixed and thereby made steady, is the own-self (Sanskrit: svarupa). In short, yoga is the means by which a self is stilled as a steady state, hence released from turbulence.

    Jnana Yoga can be assumed to mean either fixing (i.e. stilling) knowing (i.e. to a point or quantum), or knowing the still (i.e. sameness, i.e. maximum entropy as pre'condition).

    Some ancient Indians believed, without, however, establishing any real (i.e. absolutely certain) evidence (i.e. proof, verification), that perfect fixing (i.e. reduction to absolute steadiness or stillness, i.e. the perfect fix) is knowing (i.e. that they are (one and) the same (to wit: sama or sam'adhi) when perfected); or, that when fixing has been perfected (i.e. completed, ended, ceased, done) perfect knowing is achieved; or, that when cessation (Sanskrit: nirodha , i.e. maximum restriction) of fixing and/or of knowing happens both are perfected (usually, and wrongly, described as being @ 1).

    So far so good! All that now remains to be done is to determine precisely what both (own-self) fixing and (self-less or self) knowing mean.

    For yoga (as perfect act of self-connection) read: self-fixing, i.e. disconnecting (from relative interaction) to an absolutely still 1, i.e. to quantum status (for 1 read: bit). The perfect fix (i.e. yoga perfected) reverts the fixer (i.e. the yogi) to initial state capacity, i.e. to absolute stasis (i.e. to whole capacity 'stand' or 'waiting').

    For knowing (as perfect act) read: actual (hence real) touching, i.e. either connecting 1><1 (thereby achieving direct (hence primary) knowledge, usually called experience); or connecting 1><(1,1,1,1 … to n) (thereby achieving indirect (or relative) knowledge, usually called understanding)(read (1,1,1,1 ... to n) to mean: byte). Note that indirect knowing, i.e. 1><(1,1,1,1 … to n) touching, happens in a relativity field or space, therefore affects as unreal, imperfect, untrue, uncertain and so on. It is the latter (i.e. secondary) knowledge, and which is impure (and therefore called ignorance), which the yogi seeks to eliminate by means of yoga (i.e. by turbulence elimination)

    So, Jnana Yoga, i.e. fixing knowing, has 3 meanings. It can mean achieving direct (i.e. 1><1) knowledge, i.e. perfect touch (and which, it is alleged, produces the realness (Sanskrit: tattva) experience). Or it can mean attempting to touch indirect (hence unfixed) knowledge, i.e. to understand (the relative, perfectly)(and which produces the location or form (Sanskrit: cit, or cittva, or chit) experience). Or it can mean refraining from touch, i.e. thereby 'waiting' as a virtual bit, hence without limitation of any kind

    Jnana Yoga, i.e. the act (hence karma) of producing a perfect fix (as single touch or connection, or as multiple (hence location generating) touch, or as no touch that releases (i.e. as in moksha ) whole capacity) is a skill (or game) like many (indeed n) others. Perfecting any skill (or game) takes time, relentless effort, boring practice, practice, practice (until both the fixing and the touching skills become automatic reflexes), elimination, elimination, elimination, unending patience, ingenuity, intelligence, serpent-like subtlety, fearlessness, re'accessing and cultivating the most basic instincts, (psychotic, i.e. fixated) single-mindedness and all-or-nothing dedication. If you want to develop the skill of Jnana Yoga, and I seriously recommend you try the Yoga of Devotion first (and any one of n devotional fixes will do the trick) ........



Victoria Na Gig