After explaining what the instruments or tools of Knowledge are, Patanjali sets on defining Correct and incorrect Knowledge.
Knowledge is simply Awareness, that there is something.
This is the beginning of Perception.
For perception, please read my Post 'Perception'
For awareness, three things are needed.
The one who perceives(Subject)
That which is Perceived(Object) and
A Relationship between these two(Subject and the Object)
A Table (Object) may be there and you ( Subject) are present..
If you see the Table in front of your eyes, the system you follow is Realism.
You are ina room and the Table in another room.
But you know that the table exists m because you know it used to be there.
This is Objective Idealism.
There might be stable in your friend's House in some other place or take the instance of Mars.
In this case, you do not have the idea as such personally.
But it exists as an Idea in some one else's Mind.
When we take things to Be, of which we have no IDEA,it is called Subjective Idealism or Solipsism..
'Forget every thing, I am able to write on this, it has four legs and a Top'
This is Pragmatism.
Every information is through Language, that is from Words.![]()
