BHAGAVAD-GITA 14:1

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 14:1

 

sri-bhagavan uvaca

param bhuyah pravaksyami

jnananam jnanam uttamam

yaj jnatva munayah sarve

param siddhimn ito gatah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said;

param--transcendental; bhuyah--again; pravaksyami--I shall speak;

jnananam--of all knowledge; jnanam--knowledge; uttamam--the supreme;

yat--which; jnatva--knowing; munayah--the sages; sarve--all;

param--transcendental; siddhim--perfection; itah--from this world;

gatah--attained.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Again I shall declare to you

this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the

sages have attained the supreme perfection.

 

PURPORT

 

>From the Seventh Chapter to the end of the Twelfth Chapter, Sri Krsna

in detail reveals the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of

Godhead. Now, the Lord Himself is further enlightening Arjuna. If one

understands this chapter through the process of philosophical

speculation, he will come to an understanding of devotional service.

In the Thirteenth Chapter, it was clearly explained that by humbly

developing knowledge one may possibly be freed from material

entanglement. It has also been explained that it is due to association

with the modes of nature that the living entity is entangled in this

material world. Now, in this chapter, the Supreme Personality explains

what those modes of nature are, how they act, how they bind and how

they give liberation. The knowledge explained in this chapter is

proclaimed by the Supreme Lord to be superior to the knowledge given

so far in other chapters. By understanding this knowledge, various

great sages attained perfection and transferred to the spiritual

world. The Lord now explains the same knowledge in a better way. This

knowledge is far, far superior to all other processes of knowledge

thus far explained, and knowing this many attained perfection. Thus it

is expected that one who understands this Fourteenth Chapter will

attain perfection.

 

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