Editing Intuition (section)

====Hinduism====
In Hinduism, various attempts have been made to interpret how the [[Vedas|Vedic]] and other esoteric texts regard intuition.

For [[Sri Aurobindo]], intuition comes under the realm of knowledge by identity. He describes the human psychological plane (often referred to as {{transliteration|sa|mana}} in [[Sanskrit]]) as having two natures: The first being its role in interpreting the external world (parsing sensory information), and the second being its role in generating consciousness. He terms this second nature "knowledge by identity".<ref name=Aurobindo2005>{{citation |last=Aurobindo |first=Sri |title=The Life Divine |year=2005 |url=http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/downloadpdf.php?id=36 |location=Pondicherry |publisher=Lotus press |isbn=0-941524-61-2 |access-date=2016-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020004812/http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/sriauro/downloadpdf.php?id=36 |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}
</ref>{{rp|68}} Aurobindo finds that, as the result of evolution, the mind has accustomed itself to using certain physiological functions as its means of entering into relations with the material world; when people seek to know about the external world, they default to arriving at truths via their senses. Knowledge by identity, which currently only explains self-awareness, may extend beyond the mind and explain intuitive knowledge.{{r|Aurobindo2005|pp=69–71}}

He says this intuitive knowledge was common to older humans ([[Vedic]]) and later was superseded by [[reason]] which currently organises our perception, thoughts, and actions and which resulted in a transition from Vedic thought to metaphysical philosophy and later to experimental science. He finds that this process, {{clarify|text=which seems to be decent,|reason=seems to whom? decent how?|date=August 2023}} is actually a circle of progress, as {{clarify|text=a lower faculty is being pushed to take up as much from a higher way of working.|reason=lower/higher how? "take up as much" what? "working" how? "pushed" by whom?|date=August 2023}}{{r|Aurobindo2005|p=75}} He says that when self-awareness in the mind is applied to one's self and to the outer (other) self, this results in luminous self-manifesting identity;{{jargon inline|date=August 2023}} and the reason also converts itself into the form of the self-luminous{{jargon inline|date=August 2023}} intuitional knowledge.{{r|Aurobindo2005|p=72}}<ref name="Integral yoga">{{cite book|last1=Aurobindo|first1=Sri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Ex6cSqqBSwC|title=The synthesis of yoga|publisher=Sri Aurobindo ashram trust|year=1992|isbn=978-0-9415-2465-0|location=Pondicherry|pages=799–800|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref>{{r|Aurobindo2005|p=7}}

[[Rajneesh|Osho]] believed human consciousness is in a hierarchy from basic animal [[instinct]]s to intelligence and intuition, and humans being constantly living in that{{ambiguous|reason=which conscious state is "that" one?|date=August 2023}} conscious state often moving between these states depending on their affinity. He suggests that living in the state of intuition is one of the ultimate aims of humanity.<ref name="osho">{{cite book|last1=osho|first1=Bhagwan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zyBfk5V5HRkC|title=Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic|date=April 2007|publisher=osho international foundation|isbn=978-0-312-27567-9|location=New York|pages=10–20|access-date=24 December 2014}}</ref>

[[Advaita]] vedanta (a school of thought) takes intuition to be an experience through which one can come in contact with and experience [[Brahman]].<ref name="advaita">{{cite book|last1=M. Indich|first1=William|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ykZjWOiBMoC&q=advaitha+intuition&pg=PA10|title=Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta|publisher=Motilal banarisdas|year=1995|isbn=81-208-1251-4|location=varanasi|pages=8–10|access-date=24 December 2014}}</ref>