Seat of knowledge

Study with right understanding. A note on sutras: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is the most comprehensive treatise on mind and its control as well as transcendence available in world spiritual literature.

Knowledge is inherent in the mind. We receive various types of information from the external world through perception, from books and teachers. This may give the impression that knowledge comes from the outside. But the truth is understanding, which is what knowledge really means. Understanding is an inherent function of the mind.

All knowledge, secular or spiritual is inherent in the human mind. In most cases it remains covered and when the covering is being removed, we say we are learning. What one knows is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

From this we can see that knowledge is intrinsic, inherent in the three realms, the physical, the pranic or life and the mental. All these types of knowledge are manifestations of consciousness immanent in matter, in life and in the mind.