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'''Aparoksha''' (Sanskrit: अपरोक्ष), a Sanskrit adjective meaning not invisible or perceptible,^[1] refers to direct intuitive knowledge which is one of the seven stages of knowledge or conditions of Chidabhasa, the first three being the sources of bondage and the rest four being the processes of liberation; and to the continuation of the deepening of conventional knowledge. It removes sorrows.^[2] According to Indian Philosophy, the three traditional kinds of knowledge are – ''pratyaksha'' (empirical), ''paroksha'' (conventional, universal) and ''aparoksha'' (transcendental).^[3] ''Aparoksha'' is the highest kind of knowledge which cannot be gained without the practice of morality that converts ''paroksha'' knowledge from which unity of existence is derived. ^[4] This knowledge is gained by establishing a ''guru-shishya sambandha'' (Guru-shishya tradition) with a teacher who has already experienced that kind of knowledge (Aparoksanubhuti); the karma or acts required to be done, after gain of ''Aparoksha jnana'' is ''Vidya-karma'' which consists in ''sravana'' (hearing of srutis),''manana'' (reflection) and ''nididhyasana'' (meditation on Brahman). ^[5]

'''Aparoksha''' (Sanskrit: अपरोक्ष), a Sanskrit adjective meaning not invisible or perceptible,^[1] refers to direct intuitive knowledge which is one of the seven stages of knowledge or conditions of Chidabhasa, the first three being the sources of bondage and the rest four being the processes of liberation; and to the continuation of the deepening of conventional knowledge. It removes sorrows.^[2] According to Indian Philosophy, the three traditional kinds of knowledge are – ''pratyaksha'' (empirical), ''paroksha'' (conventional, universal) and ''aparoksha'' (transcendental).^[3] ''Aparoksha'' is the highest kind of knowledge which cannot be gained without the practice of morality that converts ''paroksha'' knowledge from which unity of existence is derived. ^[4] This knowledge is gained by establishing a ''guru-shishya sambandha'' (Guru-shishya tradition) with a teacher who has already experienced that kind of knowledge (Aparoksanubhuti); the karma or acts required to be done, after gain of ''Aparoksha jnana'' is ''Vidya-karma'' which consists in ''sravana'' (hearing of srutis),''manana'' (reflection) and ''nididhyasana'' (meditation on Brahman). ^[5]