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Gyanam Te Aham Savigyanam

Gita 7.2 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7 — Gyana Vignyana Yoga
ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः ।
यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते ॥
Gyanam te aham sa-vigyanam idam vakshyamy asheshatah
Yaj jnatva neha bhuyo anyaj jnatavyam avashishyate
ज्ञानम्
knowledge (theoretical understanding)
ते
to you
अहम्
I
सविज्ञानम्
together with experiential realization
इदम्
this
वक्ष्यामि
I shall tell
अशेषतः
completely, leaving nothing out
यत्
which
ज्ञात्वा
having known
not
इह
in this world
भूयः
further, again
अन्यत्
anything else
ज्ञातव्यम्
worth knowing
अवशिष्यते
remains

Krishna makes a bold promise: I will give you gyana and vignyana both — theory and lived experience — and I will hold nothing back. Gyana is what you learn from a book. Vignyana is what you understand with your own hands in the soil. A farmer who reads about crops has gyana. A farmer who has tilled and sown and harvested through many seasons has vignyana.

And here is the staggering claim: once you know this, nothing in the entire world remains to be known. Know one lump of clay, and you know every clay pot ever made. Know one nugget of gold, and you know every ornament. That one supreme knowledge — knowledge of the divine — is what Krishna is about to share.

The word 'asheshatah' means without remainder, leaving nothing out. This is a guru's pledge. Krishna is promising full transparency — no hidden truths, no reserved teachings. Everything, in full.

In 7.1, Krishna prepared Arjuna to listen. In 7.2, He states His commitment. The distinction between gyana and vignyana is central to Indian philosophy — one is intellectual understanding, the other is direct inner experience. Both are needed.

The Mundaka Upanishad (1.1.3) describes two kinds of knowledge — para (higher) and apara (lower). The sentiment of 'knowing which, nothing else remains to be known' echoes the Katha Upanishad, where Nachiketa seeks that one supreme knowledge.

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