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RESEARCH.PDF: Phenomenological Reduction and Yogic Meditation: Commonalities and Divergencies

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Aim of this paper to make a modest and specific way to compare Edmund Husserl’s (1859-1938) methods for achieving knowledge/truth with those often propounded by the Indian darśana or system of thought. As to the latter of these, my primary source will be Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras. More specifically, it compares Husserl’s phenomenological reduction(s) and Patañjali’s yogic/jñānic meditation as a methodological tool (or technique) for achieving a form of higher knowledge or truth that each claims to be otherwise impossible to reach...

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