The True Jnani

[Guest guest]

Srimad Bhagavat Gita

CHAPTER THIRTEEN 

Sloka 8-12

 

 

Bhagavan's preachings to Arjuna.

 

Having no desire for honour; freedom from pride; non-violence; forbearance;

simplicity; service to a qualified guru; purity both internally and externally;

steadiness of mind; control of the body and senses; detachment from sense

objects; absence of false ego; constantly perceiving the misery of birth,

death, old age and disease; detachment from wife, children, home, etc.; not

being absorbed in the happiness and misery of others; equanimity in attaining

either favourable or unfavourable objects; one-pointed, steadfast and

unswerving bhakti to Me; a liking for solitude; a distaste for the association

of materialistic people; constant deliberation on knowledge of the self and on

the purpose of tattva-jnana, that is, moksa – I consider all these to be jnana.

Everything else is ignorance.