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superfluities of religion and dogma. Our method is simple and least complicated compared to other systems of yoga. Again faith in our goal as „nothingness‟ is not a matter of persuasion and argument but is a matter of experience or as we prefer to call Imperience that we have during our meditations and the periodical influx of Prana. It is true that we do not have this basis for faith before we practice the system. It is here we go by faith in a person who has or had a personal experience of the system. But the nature of Pranahuti is such that in the very first exposure to it we feel our connection to the Divine getting its intimation through the imperience of Peace and deep quiets that passeth understanding.
In addition to the various methods of knowing like Pratyaksha (perceptual knowledge), Anumana (inference), Upamana (example) and Sruti (Scriptural knowledge) some thinkers have added another category of developing knowledge called Apta Vacana (words of wisdom of those dear and near to
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