Chapter 5, Verse 16
Chapter 5 · jnana-yoga
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ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः | तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ||५-१६||
jñānena tu tadajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitamātmanaḥ . teṣāmādityavajjñānaṃ prakāśayati tatparam ||5-16||
English Meaning
English Meaning
But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme (Brahman).
Hindi Meaning
परन्तु जिनका वह अज्ञान आत्मज्ञान से नष्ट हो जाता है, उनके लिए वह ज्ञान, सूर्य के सदृश, परमात्मा को प्रकाशित करता है।।
Russian Meaning
Но тем, чье невежество уничтожено знанием Самости, подобно солнцу, знание открывает Высшее (Брахмана).
Spanish Meaning
Pero a aquellos cuya ignorancia es destruida por el conocimiento del Ser, como el sol, el conocimiento revela al Supremo (Brahman).
Commentary
When ignorance? the root cause of human sufferings? is annihilated by the knowledge of the Self? this knowledge illuminates the Supreme Brahman or that highest immortal Being? just as the sun illumines all the objects of this gross? physical universe.