Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः ।
यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते ॥२॥
jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam
idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ
yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo 'nyaj
jñātavyam avaśiṣyate
Word for word (synonyms)
- jñānam
- phenomenal knowledge
- te
- unto you
- aham
- I
- sa
- with
- vijñānam
- noumenal knowledge
- idam
- this
- vakṣyāmi
- shall explain
- aśeṣataḥ
- in full
- yat
- which
- jñātvā
- knowing
- na
- not
- iha
- in this world
- bhūyaḥ
- further
- anyat
- anything more
- jñātavyam
- knowable
- avaśiṣyate
- remains to be known
Translation
I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge both phenomenal and noumenal, by knowing which there shall remain nothing further to be known.
Defined in the Gītā
Knowledge
What is knowledge?
Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and evenmindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization, and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance.
Purport
Complete knowledge includes knowledge of the phenomenal world and the spirit behind it. The source of both of them is transcendental knowledge. The Lord wants to explain the above-mentioned system of knowledge because Arjuna is Kṛṣṇa's confidential devotee and friend. In the beginning of the Fourth Chapter this explanation was given by the Lord, and it is again confirmed here: complete knowledge can be achieved only by the devotee of the Lord directly from the Lord in disciplic succession. Therefore one should be intelligent enough to know the source of all knowledge, who is the cause of all causes and the only object for meditation in all types of yoga practices. When the cause of all causes becomes known, then everything knowable becomes known, and nothing remains unknown. The Vedas say, "yasmin vijñāte sarvam eva vijñatam bhavanti."
What this verse teaches
The study note for this verse is in editorial review.
In thematic compilations 1
Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Just by hearing the knowledge given by Kṛṣṇa, nothing further remains for us to know. (7.2 jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam...)
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 11
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 1968-09-11 · San Francisco
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–2 1971-03-28 · Bombay
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3 1971-08-04 · London
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3 1972-12-14
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3 1973-09-10
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.2--Hindi 1973-10-30
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–5 1974-01-31
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 1974-04-28
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3 1974-06-13
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 1975-03-10
- Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 1975-10-28
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