STOP DYING TO LIVE

In Sanskrit, there are two specific words for knowing. One is gyan, another is vigyan or vishesh gyan. All that you can perceive and know through the five sense organs is gyan - knowledge. The word "vigyan" is loosely used today, but what it means is vishesh gyan or an extraordinary way of knowing. If you perceive that which is beyond your senses, if you are able to assimilate that knowing, that is vishesh gyan.

- Sadhguru

In Sanskrit, there are two specific words for knowing. One is gyan, another is vigyan or vishesh gyan. All that you can perceive and know through the five sense organs is gyan - knowledge. The word "vigyan" is loosely used today, but what it means is vishesh gyan or an extraordinary way of knowing. If you perceive that which is beyond your senses, if you are able to assimilate that knowing, that is vishesh gyan. There is common sense, there is sense and there is something beyond sense. With common sense, you can handle your survival process. You don't have to be brilliant to survive well. You just need common sense.

Actually, a street-smart person could con someone who is very intelligent because someone who is very intelligent may not have the wily nature of one who is walking the streets every day. Common sense is restricted to a certain habitat within which it works. When you are on survival mode, it works pretty well. But if we try to use this everywhere, we will become one big mess. If you want to transcend, you need a different kind of sense.