Bhagavad Gita
Knowledge and Realization
Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga
Kṛṣṇa distinguishes knowing about ultimate reality from realizing it directly.
What this chapter does
Krishna promises knowledge joined with direct realization, then describes his lower eightfold nature and his higher nature as the life-principle sustaining the world. He presents himself as the source, dissolution, and inner excellence of all things, while remaining beyond the qualities that arise from him. The three qualities, desire, and aversion obscure this truth; worshippers seek him in different ways, but the knower who sees Vāsudeva as all is rare and especially united with him. Those freed from delusion seek release from old age and death, knowing Brahman, the self, action, and Krishna in relation to beings, gods, sacrifice, and death.
- 01Promise of complete knowledge
- 02Two natures source the world
- 03God pervades natural excellences
- 04Guṇas and desires obscure knowledge
- 05Liberation-seekers know him at death
- Opens
- with Krishna promising complete knowledge of himself
- Closes
- with united knowers recognizing him even at death
About this edition
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GRETIL Śaṅkara Bhāṣya source. Chapter 18 is absent. Verse 3.4 is present with a spaced source marker, and chapter 13 has a source-marker numbering anomaly.
atha jñāna-vijñāna-yogākhyaḥ saptamo 'dhyāyaḥ
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