The Path of Knowledge (Jñāna)

The Blessed Lord said: In the beginning (of creation), O sinless one, the twofold path of devotion was given by Me to this world;—the path of knowledge for the meditative, the path of work for the act

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I shall tell you in full, of knowledge, speculative and practical, knowing which, nothing more here remains to be known.

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In the imperishable and infinite Highest Brahman , wherein the two, knowledge and ignorance, are hidden , the one, ignorance, perishes , the other, knowledge, is immortal; but he who controls both, kn

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'When one understands the True, then one declares the True. One who does not understand it, does not declare the True. Only he who understands it, declares the True. This understanding, however, we mu

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'Understanding (vigñâna) is better than reflection. Through understanding we understand the Rig-veda, the Yagur-veda, the Sâma-veda, and as the fourth the Âtharvana, as the fifth the tihâsapurâna, the

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But he who has understanding, who is mindful and always pure, reaches indeed that place; from whence he is not born again.

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Here they say: 'If men think that by knowledge of Brahman they will become everything, what then did that Brahman know, from whence all this sprang?'

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