Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization / Verse 1

With no further doubt or enquiry from Arjuna, Krishna begins a fresh discussion. Spiritual pursuit is not complete by knowing the inmost Self alone. A proper assessment of how the Self represents infinitude is necessary to make the seeker’s s¡dhan¡ complete.

Thus Krishna decides to expose the visible world, its complexity, to enable the seeker to live and move without fear, appreciating everything and resenting none. Such an assimilative approach makes devotion more functional and inclusive. It leads the devotee to know how resourceful the Self is, and how its full-fold expression is beyond one’s perception and imagination. It makes a devotional heart more assimilative and harmonious.