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Prajñā

In Buddhism, Prajñā denotes the first two steps in the Eightfold path, completed last, as ‘perfect view’ and ‘perfect resolve’.

Importing this word into Panosophy, Prajñā is essentially cognate with Gnosis, where a Holoramic view of the Totality of Existence is realized through Samādhi, steps six, seven, and eight in the path that constitutes the last of the Four Noble Truths, corresponding to Collumination.

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Etymology

Sanskrit ‘wisdom, consciousness, insight’, from pra ‘before; forward, in front’, used as an intensifier denoting ‘higher, greater, supreme’, and jñā ‘to know’, from PIE base *gnō.

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