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TEXT 1 sri-bhagavan uvaca
SYNONYMS  sri-bhagavan
uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; param--transcendental;
bhuyah--again;
pravaksyami--I shall speak; jnananam--of all knowledge; jnanam--knowledge;
uttamam--the supreme; yat--which;
jnatva--knowing;
munayah--the sages; sarve--all; param--transcendental;
siddhim--perfection;
itah--from this world; gatah--attained.
TRANSLATION The Blessed
Lord said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of
all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained the supreme perfection.
PURPORT From the Seventh
Chapter to the end of the Twelfth Chapter, Sri Krsna in detail reveals
the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Now, the Lord Himself
is further enlightening Arjuna. If one understands this chapter through
the process of philosophical speculation, he will come to an understanding
of devotional service. In the Thirteenth Chapter, it was clearly explained
that by humbly developing knowledge one may possibly be freed from material
entanglement. It has also been explained that it is due to association
with the modes of nature that the living entity is entangled in this material
world. Now, in this chapter, the Supreme Personality explains what those
modes of nature are, how they act, how they bind and how they give liberation.
The knowledge explained in this chapter is proclaimed by the Supreme Lord
to be superior to the knowledge given so far in other chapters. By understanding
this knowledge, various great sages attained perfection and transferred
to the spiritual world. The Lord now explains the same knowledge in a better
way. This knowledge is far, far superior to all other processes of knowledge
thus far explained, and knowing this many attained perfection. Thus it
is expected that one who understands this Fourteenth Chapter will attain
perfection.
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