Adhyāya 7 — Jñāna-Vijñāna Yogaḥ
The Yoga by Knowledge and Experience · 30 verses
Overview
from Q&A with KnANow Kṛṣṇa unfolds who this “Me” is. He offers jñāna together with vijñāna — knowledge with its realisation — “knowing which nothing more remains to be known.” He divides his own nature into a lower (aparā) prakṛti of eight elements and a higher (parā) prakṛti, the life-principle that upholds the world; he is the origin and the dissolution of all, the thread on which everything is strung, the taste in water and the light in the sun. He names his divine Māyā, made of the guṇas, hard to cross except by taking refuge in him; classes the four kinds of devotee and exalts the jñānī as his very Self; and explains why the deluded world, veiled by the pairs of opposites, fails to know the Unborn behind the human form.