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'''Aparoksha''' ([[Sanskrit]]: अपरोक्ष), a Sanskrit adjective meaning not invisible or perceptible,<ref>{{cite web|title=Sanskrit Dictionary|publisher=Spokensanskrit de.|url=http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&beginning=0+&tinput=+%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7&trans=Translate&direction=AU }}</ref> refers to direct intuitive [[Vidya (Knowledge)|knowledge]] which is one of the seven stages of knowledge or conditions of [[Chidabhasa]], the first three being the sources of bondage and the rest four being the processes of liberation; and to the continuation of the deepening of conventional knowledge. It removes sorrows.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Philosophy of the Panchdasi|author=Swami Krishnanda|publisher=The Divine Life Society|url= http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/panch/panch_07.html }}</ref> According to [[Indian philosophy]], the three traditional kinds of knowledge are – ''[[pratyaksha]]'' (empirical), ''[[paroksha]]'' (conventional, universal) and ''aparoksha'' (transcendental).<ref>{{cite book|title= The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol.49| year= 1996| publisher= Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society|page=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5oiAQAAMAAJ&q=aproksha}}</ref> ''Aparoksha'' is the highest kind of knowledge which cannot be gained without the practice of morality that converts ''paroksha'' knowledge from which unity of existence is derived.<ref>{{cite book|title= Five years of Theosophy| year= 1894| publisher= Theosophical Pub. Society|page=138| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPNNAQAAIAAJ&q=aproksha }}</ref> This knowledge is gained by establishing a ''guru-shishya sambandha'' ([[Guru-shishya tradition]]) with a teacher who has already experienced that kind of knowledge ([[Aparoksanubhuti]]); the [[karma]] or acts required to be done, after gain of ''Aparoksha jnana'' is ''Vidya-karma'' which consists in ''sravana'' (hearing of srutis), ''[[Manana (reflection)|manana]]'' (reflection) and ''[[nididhyasana]]'' (meditation on Brahman).<ref> {{cite book|title=Research Journals of Philosophy and Sciences Vol.3| author= Kedar Nath Ram Nath| publisher= University of Michigan|pages= 57,71| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixfkAAAAMAAJ&q=aproksha }}</ref>

Aparoksha is ''[[savikalpa]] jnana'' (knowledge) when one re-recognizes the non-dual nature of the ever-realized Self ([[Tat Tvam Asi]]), it is the immediate knowledge gained through the ''[[pramana]]s''; practice of ''[[Dhyana in Hinduism|Dhyana]]'' (meditation) removes all ''vikalpas'' (varied thoughts) and leads to ''[[nirvikalpa]]'' or the thoughtless state, which is the highest experience, the immediate realization of Truth.<ref>{{cite book|title= The Wisdom of Sri Dattatreya|author =K.N.Subramanian|year =2003| publisher= Sura Books| pages= 80,81|isbn =9788174783905| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=wbeg45SMdagC&q=aproksha&pg=PA80 }}</ref> It is the method of cessation from individual and collective perception leading to the position of neutrality.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cyber temple of the Beautiful Lord – The Bhagavata|url= http://www.mahaprabhu.net/bhag2.html }}</ref> ''Sarvam khalvidam Brahman'' (all this is Brahman) is ''paroksha'' knowledge, but the understanding that ''[[Aham Brahman Asmi]]'' (I am Brahman) is ''aparoksha'' knowledge.<ref>{{cite web|title=Self Knowledge|url=http://www.vijnana.org/2009/04/shravanammananamnidhidhyasanam.html|access-date=2014-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714171945/http://www.vijnana.org/2009/04/shravanammananamnidhidhyasanam.html|archive-date=2014-07-14|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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