Apavāda
Apavāda (or ‘annulment’) is the method of neti-neti (‘not thus, not thus’), whereby the spiritual aspirant acknowledges that the objects, emotions, thoughts and ideas that they encounter on a daily basis are not the sum total of their being. ‘Neti-neti,’ could be translated as ‘this object is not the infinite, this experience is not the indwelling spirit.’
In his work ‘The Yoga Tradition,’ Georg Feuerstein describes neti-neti in the following: ‘This method consists in a progressive withdrawal of attention from the various aspects of psychophysical existence, thereby leading to a gradual dismantling of the false sense of identity with a particular body-mind-ego.’
In his work ‘The Yoga Tradition,’ Georg Feuerstein describes neti-neti in the following: ‘This method consists in a progressive withdrawal of attention from the various aspects of psychophysical existence, thereby leading to a gradual dismantling of the false sense of identity with a particular body-mind-ego.’