Bhagavad Gita · 4.35 · Path of Knowledge and the Disciplines of Action·35 of 42
यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव।येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि ॥
yaj jñātvā na punar moham evaṁ yāsyasi pāṇḍava
yena bhūtānyaśheṣheṇa drakṣhyasyātmanyatho mayi
Sanskrit recitation
Knowledge that cuts doubt · 4.34–4.42 · Teaching
Translation
Knowing that thou shalt not, O Arjuna, again be deluded like this; and by that thou shalt see all beings in thyself and also in me.
Meaning
That, the knowledge of the Self mentioned in the previous verse, that is to be learnt from the Brahmanishtha Guru through prostration, estioning and service. When you acire this knowledge you will not be again subject to confusion or error. You will behold that underlying basic unity. You will behold or directly cognise through internal experience or intuition that all beings from the Creator down to a blade of grass exist in your own Self and also in Me. (Cf.IX.15XVIII.20)
After Swami Sivananda
Knowledge that cuts doubt· 4.34–4.42→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 4.34Know that the wise who have realized the truth will instruct thee in that knowledge through long prostration, supplication, and service.
4.35Knowing that thou shalt not, O Arjuna, again be deluded like this; and by that thou shalt see all beings in thyself and also in me.
- 4.36Even if thou art the most sinful of all sinners, yet thou shalt surely cross over all sins by the raft of knowledge.
- 4.37As the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all actions to ash.
- 4.38Verily, there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga finds it within the Self in due time.
- 4.39The one who is full of faith, devoted to it, and has subdued their senses obtains this knowledge; and upon obtaining the knowledge, they attain the supreme peace immediately.
- 4.40The ignorant, the faithless, and the doubting self go to destruction; there is neither this world nor the other, nor happiness for the doubting one.
- 4.41He who has renounced actions through Yoga, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge, and who is self-possessed—such a one is not bound by actions, O Arjuna.
- 4.42Therefore, with the sword of knowledge (of the Self), cut asunder the doubt of the self, born of ignorance, residing in your heart, and take refuge in Yoga. Arise, O Arjuna!
Word-by-word→
- na
- never
- yat
- which
- atho
- that is to say
- evam
- like this
- mayi
- in me
- yena
- by this
- moham
- delusion
- punaḥ
- again
- ātmani
- within me (Shree Krishna)
- yāsyasi
- you shall get
- bhūtāni
- living beings
- jñātvā
- having known
- drakṣhyasi
- you will see
- pāṇḍava
- Arjun, the son of Pandu
- aśheṣhāṇi
- all
Related verses
- 2.29One sees this (the Self) as a wonder; another speaks of it as a wonder; another hears of…
- 2.46To the Brahmana who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of as much use as a reservoir of…
- 2.53When your intellect, which is perplexed by the Vedic texts you have read, stands immovable…
- 4.5The Blessed Lord said, "Many births of Mine have passed, as well as of thine, O Arjuna; I…