UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Yogaja pratyaksha is a special kind of perception said to arise from yogic concentration and discipline, allowing direct awareness of subtle realities that ordinary senses cannot reach. It is considered alaukika because it does not depend on usual sense-object contact. Traditional texts describe yogaja perception as immediate and self-evident to the yogi. Therefore the supernormal awareness mentioned in the stem is called yogaja pratyaksha.

Option A:
Option A, laukika, refers to everyday empirical perception through external senses and cannot account for the extraordinary, meditative origin of yogic awareness.

Option B:
Option B, samanyalaksana, is focused on perceiving universals through their instances, not on supernormal access to hidden or distant objects.

Option C:
Option C is correct because yogaja directly points to yogic origin, distinguishing these cognitions from both ordinary perception and reasoning. It preserves the claimed immediacy of such insights while acknowledging their exceptional status.

Option D:
Option D, anumana, is mediate inferential knowledge and lacks the immediacy and non-discursive character attributed to yogic perception.