Jnana Vijnana Yoga

Knowledge of the divine comes in two forms: the manifest and the unmanifest. Why few seek, fewer find, and rarer still understand.

All 30 verses below.

Wisdom translation, edited by Ankur Shukla. Commentary AI-drafted, human-reviewed. Reviewed June 2026. Methodology →

Verses

• 7.1Refuge and practice open the way to complete knowing.
• 7.2Real knowing leaves no unfinished hunger for more.
• 7.3True knowing is rarer than striving, even among the successful.
• 7.4What changes is not the whole of what you are.
• 7.5What sustains the world is subtler than what the senses first show.
• 7.6Everything that appears rises from one source and returns there.
• 7.7Everything is held in one sustaining reality.
• 7.8The sacred is already inside ordinary experience.
• 7.9The sacred is already inside nature, vitality, and discipline.
• 7.10All brilliance is borrowed from the same source.
• 7.11Strength becomes clean when desire no longer fights dharma.
• 7.12All qualities arise in the divine, yet the divine is not bound by any of them.
• 7.13Three qualities can hide the imperishable reality from plain sight.
• 7.14The way beyond the veil is not force, but refuge.
• 7.15A corrupted mind cannot recognise what would free it.
• 7.16Different needs can still lead to one real turning toward the divine.
• 7.17Deep knowing and devoted love become a mutual bond.
• 7.18Deep knowing turns devotion into identity.
• 7.19Deep seeing ends in surrender to the one reality in all things.
• 7.20Desire clouds judgment and sends the mind toward smaller refuges.
• 7.21Faith becomes firm where the devotee turns.
• 7.22Faith draws the result, but the deeper order grants it.
• 7.23Finite worship brings finite results; devotion returns you to Krishna.
• 7.24Form can hide the imperishable reality beneath it.
• 7.25The hidden divine is missed by confused seeing, not by absence.
• 7.26Everything is visible to the divine; the divine remains unseen to ordinary minds.
• 7.27Desire and aversion turn clear seeing into confusion.
• 7.28Clear hearts stop wavering and move toward the divine with resolve.
• 7.29Refuge in the divine opens total understanding of reality, inner life, and action.
• 7.30Complete understanding remains steady even at the moment of departure.