Cognizance

   'Taking cognizance' means giving attention to a subject that may otherwise go unnoticed. Thus, we have to take cognizance of a certain subject that would otherwise go unnoticed. How many things go unnoticed every day is something very important and we never know that! The Mind can do one thing at a time. It can think or act and cannot do both at the same time. Many thinkers never act; so also many activists never even think what for they are fighting, arguing or working. This is the problem. Now coming to this task of  'taking cognizance of' requires a lot of attention, conscious one, at that.it is the Consciousness that is the datum line here. Cognizance is the product of 'chit-shakti. Chit or Consciousness is brahmn. prajnyanan brahmn |

   Now, who is cognizing of what? The Atman or the soul is the cognizer and cognizance is the function of the One who resides within us , ie, brahmn, paramatman. The jiva is only re-cognizing what it has already experienced during the several previous births. In this way, it is recognition, pratyabhijnyam that the jiva does in its long journey of life. When the jiva recognizes its true nature the search ends. The jiva stops all its search the moment it realizes who it is! This is pratyabhinjya hridayam eulogized in Kashmir Shaivism.  

  The most significant aspect of this pratyabhijnyam or recognizing or rediscovering (that is lost or untraceable?) is that the knowledge is there but it is covered by some envelope. Generally, one loses sight of one thing when attention is diverted  or something more pressing draws his attention. It is also our greed, avarice, desires and attachment that make lose sight of the truth. This is how jiva gets into trouble. Whoever hears the inner voice, advice of the heart and not the fickle mind and perverted buddhi, will get over the troubles and turmoils of sansara, bhava sagara. A yogi or jnyani is unperturbed by the distractions of the senses, mind, buddhi and ahankar and concentrates on the soul, Atman and there by attains the highest, param padam.