अनुगीता पर्व — आत्मज्ञान का उद्गम

The Brahmana's wife said This cannot be understood by a weakminded person as also by one whose soul has not been purified. My intelligence is very little, and contracted, and confused.

Tell me the means by which the knowledge may be acquired. I wish to learn from you the source from which this knowledge comes.

Know that intelligence about Brahma is the lower Arani; the preceptor is the upper Arani; penances and conversance with the scriptures are what make attrition. From this is originated the fire of knowledge.

The Brahmana's wife said About this symbol of Brahma, which is designated, Kshetrajna, where, indeed, is a description of it by which it is capable of being seized?

The Brahmana said He is without symbols, and without qualities. Nothing exists that may be you the considered as his cause. I shall, however, tell means by which he can be apprehended or not.

A good means may be found; which is perceived as by bees. That means consists of and understanding purified by action. Those whose understanding have not been so purified consider that entity, through their own ignorance, as invested with the properties of knowledge and others.

It is not laid down that this should be done, or that this should not be donc, in the rules for acquiring Liberation, those that is, in which a knowledge of the soul originates only in him who sees and hears.

One should understand as many parts, unmanifest and manifest, by hundreds and thousands, as one is capable of comprehending here.

Indeed, one should comprehend various objects of various significancies, and all objects of direct perception. Then will come, from practice, that above which nothing cxists.

The holy one said Then the mind of the Brahmana's wife, upon the destruction of the Kshetrajna, became that which is beyond Kshctrajna, on account of the knowledge of Kshetra.

Arjuna said, Where, indeed, is that Brahmana's wife, O Krishna, and where is that foremost of Brahmanas, by both of whom was such success acquired. Tell me about them, O you of undecaying glory.

My mind is the Brahmana, and that my understanding is the Brahmana's wife. He who has been spoken of as Kshetrajna is I myself, O Dhananjaya.