Episode 5 of the series „Die sieben Bhumikas“ - A poetic-philosophical series about deception, realisation and the quiet awakening in the noise of our time. The Seven bhumikas are the seven stages of spiritual evolution as described in the Yoga Vasishtha and described in the commentary by Brahmananda to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika be described. Bhumika means steps.
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The price of knowledge is not knowing
(Asaṁsakti - freedom from attachment)
There is a point on the path where realisation is no longer sought - because it has turned out to be an overlay. Not as an error, but as a way station. Not as an enemy, but as a garment that once warmed - and has now become too tight. What was considered knowledge is beginning to crumble. Not from lack, but from maturity.
Asaṁsakti is the state in which the world is still there - but its allure is fading. The ego still exists - but it becomes permeable. Thought still forms concepts - but it no longer binds. Here, man is not beyond the world, but free from its stickiness. He acts, but does not cling. He loves, but does not possess. He recognises - without getting caught up in this knowledge.
The fifth bhumika does not describe renunciation in the external sense. It describes the quiet cessation of wanting to hold on to something. The inner detachment does not happen because the world is bad - but because its apparent meaning loses its depth. What remains is presence without a project. Presence without a goal.
The price of knowledge is not knowing. Not as a relapse - but as an opening. The realisation that everything that was known was only a temporary hold. This is where a profound change takes place: from the need to understand to the ability to dwell. The person lets go of the knowledge, just as one lets go of an image that has long provided orientation - but now blocks the view.
Asaṁsakti is not a state of indifference. It is a state of deep, silent penetration - beyond reaction, beyond possession. A form of touch that no longer grips. A kind of closeness that no longer demands.
Those who linger here still live in the world - but they no longer live from her. He realises that truth cannot be grasped. And that is precisely why it begins to show itself.
Introductory text for episode 5 - Asamsakti
Asaṁsakti - the fifth bhumika - describes this state of non-attachment. The person lives, loves, acts - but no longer clings to things, roles, images. The ego begins to detach itself, not in defence, but in expansiveness. What remains is not emptiness, but space: for everything that happens without having to hold on to it.
This episode is about quietly stopping. About letting go of meaning. About a lingering that no longer asks whether it is enough. Not because the answers have been found - but because the questions themselves have become silent.
What if maturity does not lie in knowing more - but in wanting less? And what if non-attachment does not mean renunciation - but the deepest form of inner freedom?
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„Die sieben Bhumikas“
A series about deception, realisation and the quiet awakening in the noise of our time
The series consists of thematic impulses inspired by Patanjali, the seven Bhumikas, the Bhagavad Gita and being deeply human in a world full of masks, distraction and longing. Each contribution is a silent gateway - a mirror, a question, a reminder.
Avidya, in the context of yoga and Buddhism, means ignorance or lack of knowledge, but not in the sense of a lack of knowledge, but rather as a delusion or wrong view of reality. It is the basis for suffering and is regarded as the "mother" of all other kleshas (affects or hindrances).
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Note on the series: This series of articles is part of the forthcoming book
"THE SILENCE BEHIND THOUGHTS - Patañjali's Yogasūtra - four stages of inner concentration"
written by Kati Voß | Volume I of the series WEISHEITSWISSEN / Category: Spiritual Philosophy & Wisdom Literature for the Inner Path
This book takes you into the depths of Yogasūtra - not as a technique, but as an inner path. In four sections, a silent understanding of collection, clarity and self-direction unfolds. The millennia-old scripture can be read anew here: poetically, experientially, quietly. Patañjali's path to inner concentration becomes an invitation to counter the noise of thinking with another force - the silence behind it.
Erscheinung: November 2025 – Die Texte der Reihe „Die sieben Bhumikas" sind begleitende Impulse dieses Werks.
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