Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 833

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 18 The Yog of Renunciation ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ता च त्रिधैव गुणभेदत: । प्रोच्यते गुणसंख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि ॥19॥ [“Listen to me well on how even knowledge and action and the doer have been graded into three kinds each, in the Sankhya philosophy of properties (gun).’’ ] The next verse throws light upon the character of virtuous knowledge. सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते। अविभक्तं विभक्तेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि सात्विकम् ॥20॥ [ “Know that knowledge as immaculate (sattwik) by which one perceives the reality of the indestructible God as an undivided entity in all divided beings.’’ ] Such knowledge is direct perception, with which the properties of nature come to an end. It marks the culmination of awareness. Let us now see knowledge of the second (rajas) kind.

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