Sublime

Le mantra le plus ancien, le plus fréquent et le plus sacré est Om. Dans les écrits védiques, on donne de multiples interprétations à ce son, qui vont de la connaissance infinie à l’essence de tout ce qui existe, en passant par tous les Veda. Le son Om est également appelé pranava, signifiant « le son par lequel le Seigneur est loué ». On récite le

May we together be protected, may we together be nourished. May we work together with vigor, may our study be illuminating. May we be free from discord. Om. Peace, peace, peace. —Taittiriya Upanishad (2.1), translated by Zoë Slatoff

since all forms or activities of the mind are products of prakṛti, matter, and completely distinct from the soul or true self, puruṣa, they must all be restrained in order for the soul to be realized by the yogī as an autonomous entity distinct from the mind.

This must in no way be confused with, or even thought of, as god or the highest principle, the Brahman, which are the projections of the human mind out of fear and longing, the unyielding desire for total security.

section.) The Krama school of NŚT teaches that we can observe the divine acts of sṛṣṭi, sthiti, and saṃhāra in the arising and falling away of each and every cognition

brahmavidya is not intellectual study. The intellect was given full training in these forest academies, but brahmavidya is not psychology or philosophy. It is, in a sense, a lab science: the mind is both object and laboratory. Attention is trained inward, on itself, through a discipline the Upanishads call nididhyasana: meditation.