Chapter 5 Overview
Verse 5.16
ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः। तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम्।।5.16।।
jñānena tu tad ajñānaṁ yeṣhāṁ nāśhitam ātmanaḥ teṣhām āditya-vaj jñānaṁ prakāśhayati tat param
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 5, Verse 16
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme Brahman.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: for those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, that knowledge shines like the sun revealing the highest, again using light breaking through cloud as the central image for clarity replacing confusion.
In life: a long-standing confusion about yourself or a relationship can sometimes clear almost suddenly, once the right piece of understanding arrives.
Teaching: don't assume a long confusion means the clarity will also take a long time to arrive, sometimes it appears all at once, like sun through parting cloud.
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tatthat
ajñānamignorance
yeṣhāmwhose
nāśhitamhas been destroyed
ātmanaḥof the self
teṣhāmtheir
āditya-vatlike the sun
jñānamknowledge
prakāśhayatiillumines
tatthat
paramSupreme Entity
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
5.16 ज्ञानेन by wisdom? तु but? तत् that? अज्ञानम् ignorance? येषाम् whose? नाशितम् is destroyed? आत्मनः of the Self? तेषाम् their? आदित्यवत् like the sun? ज्ञानम् knowledge? प्रकाशयति reveals? तत्परम् that Highest.Commentary When ignorance? the root cause of human sufferings? is annihilated by the knowledge of the Self? this knowledge illuminates the Supreme Brahman or that highest immortal Being? just as the sun illumines all the objects of this gross? physical universe.