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of karma. The process of liberation is in fact an individual psychic
drama. Abstract and rational consciousness can not claim to solve it,
but only to justify it. The rational concepts of thinking, language,
power and so on, become tangible personifications in the mystic moment:
Siva and his various hypostases as Rudra, 'the Terrible", "the Without-
Support", the sundry powers, the Supreme, etc. Meditating and worshipping
them, however, the disciple becomes aware that they are only creations
of his own consciousness. Thus the abstract speculation and the mystical
view are not two opposite realities excluding each other, but rather
(ie. the reality)
two faces of the same reality. Concepts and relations "create" it/in
the philosophical moment, while symbols and images become manifest in
the mystic universe both of these views are equally real and credible.
The direct perceptions and judgements on which the speculative moment
of the Ego is based, do not exclude an a priori "certitude", the intuitive
( sometimes quite instinctive) and pre-rational activity. The sacred
Saivite scriptures are based upon this a priori certitude (prasiddhi)
(TA, XXXV passim). Because the scriptures are the most important means
of knowledge (VP, I, 40), therefore intuitive consciousness has pre-
eminence for the Ego.
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The intuitive consciousness is rooted in the heart
and it is able to yield sudden changes in one's life,
as,
for instance,
in a devotee's spontaneous approach to a certain faith. In its hypostasis
(J.Gonda
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of intuitive creativity or "suprime speech", it is known as pratibha
The Vision of the Vedic Poets, The Hague, 1963, p.318-348).
This non-discursive consciousness is all-pervasive and therefore omni-
scient in its highest point of achievement. It manifests afterwards in
the form "I am all that" (tattvamasi) and everything is gathered inside