Bhagavad Gita 4.38 · Na Hi Jnanena Sadrishamन हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते।तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥
na hi jñānena sadṛiśhaṁ pavitramiha vidyate
tatsvayaṁ yogasansiddhaḥ kālenātmani vindati
Sanskrit recitation
Knowledge that cuts doubt · 4.34–4.42 · Teaching
Translation
Verily, there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga finds it within the Self in due time.
Hindi translation
इस मनुष्यलोकमें ज्ञानके समान पवित्र करनेवाला निःसन्देह दूसरा कोई साधन नहीं है। जिसका योग भली-भाँति सिद्ध हो गया है, वह (कर्मयोगी) उस तत्त्वज्ञानको अवश्य ही स्वयं अपने-आपमें पा लेता है।
Meaning
There exists no purifier eal to knowledge of the Self. He who has attained perfection by the constant practice of Karma Yoga and Dhyana Yoga (the Yoga of meditation) will, after a time, find the knowledge of the Self in himself.
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…
- 4.35Knowing that thou shalt not, O Arjuna, again be deluded like this; and by that thou shalt…
- 4.36Even if thou art the most sinful of all sinners, yet thou shalt surely cross over all sins…
- 4.37As the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge reduce…
4.38Verily, there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga…
- 4.39The one who is full of faith, devoted to it, and has subdued their senses obtains this…
- 4.40The ignorant, the faithless, and the doubting self go to destruction; there is neither…
- 4.41He who has renounced actions through Yoga, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge,…
- 4.42Therefore, with the sword of knowledge (of the Self), cut asunder the doubt of the self,…
Word-by-word→
- hi
- certainly
- na
- not
- iha
- in this world
- tat
- that
- yoga
- practice of yog
- svayam
- oneself
- kālena
- in course of time
- vidyate
- exists
- vindati
- finds
- ātmani
- wihtin the heart
- pavitram
- pure
- jñānena
- with divine knowledge
- sadṛiśham
- like
- sansiddhaḥ
- he who has attained perfection
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