Practising from within…”…Shankara (the great Vedanta commentator) defined Vijnana…understanding or wisdom arising from internal clarity, not external information. Ramakrishna gave a vivid image: “Knowing that fire exists in wood is jnana (theoretical knowledge). But striking the wood, cooking rice on that fire, eating it, and being nourished by it — that is vijnana — to know and understand from within.”
