Truth Unraveled.

The Mediate, 

The Immediate, 

and 

The Inter-mediate.

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There is a text of 

Sri Shankaracharya, 

with the title :

Aparokshanubhuti.

The Sanskrit word 

"Aparokshanubhuti" is a word synonymous with the English equivalent 

"Direct Perception".

"Perception" implies consciousness. 

Where there is an object, perceived in a subject, that is consciousness.

This trinity is always there whenever there is consciousness. 

Conversely,

Existence of consciousness implies, there exists such a trinity.

The object is,  what is perceived.

The subject is, where the perception takes place.

The awareness of the object within the perception of the subject is what is meant by consciousness.

The subject is conscious of the object. 

We just don't know for sure if the object exists independently of the subject.

However we do know beyond doubt that the subject and the consciousness do exist without  and independently of the object.

Could we perhaps ask :

Is the subject and the consciousness one and the same, unique and identical ?

Could the subject be other than the consciousness?

Could the consciousness be other than the subject?

Then exactly who or what is the person?

Is the person one, who is conscious of the  consciousness and oneself as well, and at the same time?

 Consciousness has two aspects :

One is knowledge,

Another is Wisdom.

Knowledge could be stored in a proper format that is what is called the memory. 

A computer too has a memory in terms of KB, MB, GB, TB.

Still it is confined in certain formats.

A computer could be taught to work on itself through its memory and a certain algorithm provided to it for the same.

Maybe, this could be something what they call the AI. 

Is all this mechanisation or a fraction of this could be called Wisdom?

We would perhaps agree that the computer is after all a machine only and an insentient one as well.

So,  what makes a system a conscious or an object without consciousness?

A living Organism on the other hand is given with sentience.

Another pertinent aspect of a living organism is the progeny. 

A machine or a computer, a robot or animated machine may he possibly do create its own replica. 

But do they possess sentience?

But do they possess the consciousness? 

Again, What about a living organism?

Does it possess the consciousness? 

Or, is it possessed by the consciousness? 

Exactly Who is the possessed,

and Who is the possessor?

We could conclude that consciousness (the subjective reality) is an abstraction while the objective reality is a fact.

Whatever be the truth, the consciousness is never a material object any.

Could we see What is Wisdom? 

Isn't the Wisdom the direct perception only?

Isn't the Wisdom something very alive and at the same time beyond the reach of thought, the algorithm?

Wisdom is the source and end of thought but is beyond thought as well.

Wisdom could not he made into an object or an objective. 

Wisdom is not confined within the periphery of the consciousness as well.

Wisdom is a Sovereign movement in its own way. 

Though the material existence and the mind (consciousness) are known in this Wisdom,  thus knowing is different than :

The knowledge Mediate,  that is about the objects perceived in consciousness, and

The knowledge Intermediate, that is in the form of thought, intellect, memory, the information acquired about the world, people and events, and the phenomenal.

Other than the above two, there is perception of the very ground where consciousness keeps repeatedly arising and submerging.

This ground is the Wisdom steady,  unwavering, which is the Perception Immediate. 

This Im-mediate awakening of Reality is the true Intelligence.

The same is what is pointed out by the word :

Aparokshanubhuti. 

अपरोक्षानुभूति 

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