Srimad Bhagavadgeeta :

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Friday, Jan 24,, 2014.

 Srimad Bhagavadgeeta :

 Chapter- 5. ( Karma-sanyasa-yogam )

 Slokam-16.

Jnanena tu tad ajnanam yesam nasitama atmanah,
Tesham aditya-vaj jnanam prakasayati tat param.

Tu atmanah jnanena = But with the knowledge of Self ( Atma);

 Yesham tat ajnanam = Of those, that ignorance;

 nasitam                           = Is destroyed; 

 Tesham jnanam           = Of their knowledge;

 Adityavat                        = Like the rising sun; 

 Tat param                       = That "Paramatma tattvam " ( Krishna Consciousness ) ;

 Prakasayati                      = Shines, ( Enlightens / discloses ).

But to the living entity whose nescience is destroyed by knowledge, that knowledge discloses the Supreme Reality like the rising sun.

To that soul, however, of whom the ignorance has been destroyed by Atma-tattvam, the supreme reality of spiritual knowledge is disclosed like a rising sun.

When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights up everything in the daytime. 

But in the case of those of whom that ignorance of theirs becomes destroyed by the knowledge (of the Self), their Knowledge, like the sun, reveals that supreme Reality.

Vedic knowledge alone destroys spiritual ignorance that is why Lord Krishna uses the word jnana or knowledge referring to knowledge of the Vedas which gives actual awareness of the ultimate reality. Here the word jnana denotes a supra-consciousness experience it does not mean expertise in intellectual empirical knowledge nor does it mean proficiency in mundane analytical knowledge.

Here Lord Krishna is emphasising that persons whose spiritual knowledge has become awakened do not become deluded in the material existence. They are able to discriminate between the mundane material knowledge and the divine spiritual knowledge by knowledge of the atma or soul and knowledge of the Supreme. This spiritual knowledge destroys all ignorance and manifests illumination of the Supreme Lord within the ethereal heart of a human being just as the sun destroying darkness and illuminates all things. 

Knowledge is of two types mundane and transitory and transcendental and eternal; but why is it that all those whose minds have been enveloped in ignorance since time immemorial are so infatuated while others are able to free themselves from delusion? It is do to the Supreme Lords grace through the mercy of His devotee that those are able to free themselves from the infatuation of delusion. Only be the grace of the Supreme Lords devotee is one able to reverse the envelopment of ignorance constituted by the mindset fashioned from reactions to one's actions and flow towards the eternal nature of the atma or soul which is realised by continuous reflection, contemplation and meditation upon the teachings of the Vedic scriptures received through the mouth of the spiritual master and the following of His instructions who has himself realised the essence of the Vedic scriptures and who has achieved atma tattva or realisation of the soul and has attained the Supreme Being which is completely transcendental to all things material and is like the rising of the sun illuminating the consciousness in all directions to those who have knowledge of . This is why such beings do not get infatuated and become deluded.

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