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Jnana
Liberating knowledge of the Self and the Absolute.
ConceptBhagavad Gitaज्ञान
Definition
True knowledge, insight into Self, reality, and liberation.
Meaning
Jnana-yoga is the path of understanding: discriminating the eternal from the transient, and seeing the one Self in all beings.
Etymology
From Sanskrit √jna "to know".
Primary sources
- Bhagavad Gita · ch. 4
- Bhagavad Gita · ch. 13
- Bhagavad Gita · ch. 18
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- Krishna teaching the eternal Self beyond the body
- Jnana-yajna, sacrifice of knowledge (ch. 4)
- Field and knower of the field (ch. 13)
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