Discriminative wisdom — the capacity to distinguish the real from the unreal, the permanent from the impermanent, Self from not-Self. The essential faculty awakened by inner work. Where Avidyā obscures, Vivēka reveals. The beginning of the path is often the first clean act of Vivēka.
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Vivēka
विवेक
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