Jnana Vijnana Yoga
The Yoga of Knowledge and Wisdom
30 verses
With mind absorbed in the Divine and taking complete refuge, one can know God fully and without a shadow of doubt.
When theoretical knowledge transforms into living realization, nothing further remains to be known—the search ends in fullness.
Among thousands, one seeks perfection; among seekers, one in a thousand knows the Divine in truth—rarity reveals preciousness.
Everything you see, touch, think, and feel as "I"—all eight layers of reality—are simply God playing at being matter.
Matter is My body, but consciousness is My soul—and it is consciousness that makes the entire universe come alive.
You emerged from God, you exist in God, and you will dissolve back into God—there has never been anything but God playing all the parts.
All existence is strung upon the Divine like pearls on an invisible thread—nothing exists higher than or apart from this unifying presence.
The Divine is not distant but intimate—the very taste you experience in water, the light you see by, the sound that fills space, the capacity within every human being.
The Divine pervades all existence as the pure fragrance of earth, the heat of fire, the life-force animating every creature, and the spiritual intensity burning in those who seek truth.
Every spark of genius, every flash of brilliance you have ever witnessed or experienced—that was never yours to claim; it was always the Divine showing itself through you.
Here is the Gita's most liberating teaching about desire: not all wanting is bondage—the pure impulse of life seeking its natural expression IS the Divine moving through you.
This single verse contains the key to freedom: the gunas are in you, but you are not in them—you can wear states like clothing without becoming the clothing.
The world sleeps in a trance of three colors—sattva, rajas, tamas—never suspecting the colorless Awareness that holds the whole dream.
Maya is divine—your own efforts cannot defeat God's power; only surrender to its Source dissolves the spell.
Four masks hide the Divine from human eyes: cruelty, stupidity, degradation, and demonic pride—all are maya's children.
Every path to the Divine is valid—distress, desire, curiosity, or wisdom—but all who seek are already blessed.
The jnani's devotion is a mutual love affair—God is infinitely dear to the wise, and the wise one is infinitely dear to God.
The jnani is not merely close to God—the jnani IS God's very Self, having reached the goal from which there is no return.
After countless lifetimes of seeking, the wise one finally realizes 'Vasudeva is everything'—and such a great soul is the rarest treasure in all existence.
Desire blinds—when you want something badly enough, you'll worship whatever promises to give it.
Whatever form you choose to worship with sincerity, Krishna Himself strengthens that very faith.
You may pray to many deities and receive what you seek—but it is always Krishna who grants, behind every form.
Worship for finite rewards yields finite results; only those who seek the infinite attain the infinite.
The spiritually immature mistake God's human form for His totality, missing the infinite behind the finite.
God deliberately veils Himself through yoga-maya—not to deceive, but to preserve the sacred play of seeking and finding.
Krishna knows all beings across all time—past, present, future—yet remains unknowable by ordinary knowledge, for the Infinite cannot be grasped by the finite.
From the moment of birth, all beings fall into delusion through the pairs of opposites—desire and aversion—which create the entire structure of human suffering.
पाप समाप्त होने पर द्वैत-भ्रम गिरता है—तभी सच्ची भक्ति जन्मती है।
जो जरा-मृत्यु से मुक्ति हेतु मेरी शरण लेते हैं, वे सब कुछ जान लेते हैं—ब्रह्म, आत्मा, और समस्त कर्म।
जो मुझे सर्वव्यापी जानते हैं—भूत, दैव, यज्ञ सहित—वे मृत्यु के क्षण भी मुझे नहीं भूलते।