Apakva

Apakva

"immature", "unprepared", "uncooked"

The term can be used in relation to raw, uncooked food or other substances.

In yogic literature, “apakva” is usually used in a figurative sense: an unprepared, immature sadhaka. For example, “Yoga Bija” says that the state of liberation cannot be achieved in an immature body:

“34. Those who have a body are of two kinds: ‘immature’ (apakva) and ‘mature’ (paripakva). Immature – those who are deprived of yoga, become mature through yoga.
35. Cooked (pakva) in the fire of yoga, the owner of the body becomes free from inertia and suffering. The unprepared (apakva) is known as inert and earthly, he is full of suffering.
36. [If the body is immature,] meditation should be practiced by which the sense organs become controlled. By following niyama, [such sadhaka] quickly awakens.
37-39. Immature bodies suffer from cold, heat, pleasures, misfortunes, human diseases, other living beings, weapons, fire, water and wind. Accordingly, the mind of these people becomes restless, and the life force loses balance due to lack of prana or apana. Thus, the mind of a person who is afflicted with many sufferings is caught.”