Vaiśāradya is the clear, steady flow of luminous buddhi-sattva after impurity and obscuration have been removed and rajas and tamas no longer overpower it. When nirvicāra-samādhi matures in this way, adhyātma-prasāda arises: a distinct light of prajñā that apprehends real objects without following their temporal sequence. A quoted verse compares the sage to a person on a mountain looking down upon the grieving people below.

The prajñā arising in collected citta is called ṛtaṃbharā, “truth-bearing,” because it bears truth alone and contains not even a trace of erroneous cognition. The Bhāṣya quotes a verse according to which prajñā is cultivated in three ways—through tradition, inference, and the savor of meditative practice—and thereby attains the highest yoga.

Knowledge from tradition and inference apprehends universals, according to the Bhāṣya, because words are not conventionally assigned to every individual particular and inferences likewise determine general relations. Ordinary perception cannot apprehend the particular in subtle, hidden, or remote things. Yet such particulars are not therefore unreal: samādhi-prajñā apprehends precisely these particulars in the subtle elements or in Puruṣa and thus has a different object-domain.