God-Knowledge

One who truly knows in essence this divine nature of My birth and action — on leaving the body, is not reborn, but comes to Me, O Arjuna.

By devotion alone one truly knows Me — how great I am and what I truly am; and having thus known Me in truth, one enters into Me without delay.

Know me also as the knower of the field in all fields, O Bharata. Knowledge of the field and of the knower of the field — this, I hold, is true knowledge.

Higher than the great Self is the Unmanifest; higher than the Unmanifest is the Purusha. Beyond the Purusha there is nothing. That is the end; that is the supreme goal.

His form does not stand in the field of sight; no one sees Him with the eye. He is revealed by heart, by wisdom, by mind — those who know Him become immortal.

Beyond the Unmanifest is the Purusha, all-pervading and without attributes. Knowing Him, a being is freed and attains immortality.

It cannot be grasped by the eye, nor by speech, nor by other senses, nor by austerity, nor by ritual action. Through the grace of spiritual wisdom, one with a purified being—meditating—comes to behold that partless reality.

I shall declare that which is to be known — knowing which, one attains immortality. It is the beginningless supreme Brahman, which is said to be neither existent nor non-existent.

But the great souls, O Partha, who take refuge in the divine nature — knowing Me as the primal, imperishable source of all beings — they worship Me with undivided mind.

The Blessed Lord said: To you who are free from fault-finding, I shall now reveal the most secret knowledge joined with direct experience — knowing which you shall be freed from all that is inauspicious.

Those who strive for liberation from old age and death, taking refuge in Me — they come to know Brahman fully, and all that pertains to the self and to action.

I know, O Arjuna, all beings that have passed, all that exist now, and all that are yet to come — but no one knows Me.

This is My lower nature. Know, O mighty-armed one, that beyond this is My higher nature — the life-principle itself, by which this entire universe is upheld.

Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and ego — this is My lower nature, divided eightfold.

I shall reveal to you in full both knowledge and wisdom-in-experience. Having come to know this, nothing further worth knowing remains in this world.

The Blessed Lord said: O Partha, with mind attached to Me, practicing yoga while taking refuge in Me — hear how you shall know Me wholly and without doubt.

I do not think I know it well; nor do I think I do not know it at all. Whoever among us knows this verse — he knows that it cannot be said he does not know.

She said, it is Brahman. In that victory of Brahman you have been glorified. From this alone he knew it was Brahman.

This very syllable is Brahman; this very syllable is the highest. Knowing this syllable, whatever one desires is theirs.

That which is beyond right and wrong, beyond the done and the undone, beyond past and future — tell me what you see as that.