Verse 7.1-2

Verse 7.1: The exalted-one spake: “With the mind holding fast unto Me, O Son of Pritha, and carrying on Yogic practice, with Me as the refuge, the way thou wilt know Me in entirety and with certainty, do thou hear:

Verse 7.2: “I shall now impart unto thee in its fulness that knowledge, together with its realisation, after knowing which there does not remain here anything else as a further object of knowledge. (1)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

“Hear ye now”, Shrikrishna then said to Arjuna, “O, you have now certainly come in the possession of (the knowledge of) Yoga path. I shall now preach to you “Jnana”, (the Secret of all Knowledge) and “Vijnana” (Knowledge of this world), so that you will be able to know me in entirety as clearly as the very jewel placed on your palm. You might feel doubtful about the necessity of the empirical or worldly knowledge, but you must know it before everything else. For, with the advent of the vision of true knowledge, ordinary awareness gets its eyes dimmed, just as a boat remains steady, when kept resting on the bank.

That state where the worldly awareness gets no footing, in that state of mind even the thought turns back and the reasoning power even is crippled—well, such a state of soul, Oh Partha, is known as knowledge. All other views by which the wherefore and the why of the world are grasped, are entirely different from the Supreme Knowledge of being, and they are named ‘Vijnana’; and the belief that the world is all a reality is ignorance. Indeed, with a view to ending that ignorance and to melting the worldly-minded insight, one’s soul must fix itself in the essence of Supreme Knowledge. When this state is attained, all talk of the preacher comes to a halt, the craving for learning on the part of the hearers comes to an end, and all distinction, such as small and big, ceases to exist. Such mystic secret I am going to speak to you now, and even a small fraction of it, will make your mind feel greatly satisfied.