Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 7
Knowledge and Realisation
Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga
The difference between knowing about something and realising it.
Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 7 (traditional text)
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The chapter separates knowledge held as information from knowledge that has been lived. Krishna describes the many forms through which the whole is met, and the different reasons people turn toward what is greater than themselves.
Key ideas
What this chapter turns on
- Knowledge
- Realisation
- Devotion
- Knowledge
- Devotion
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- What do you know intellectually but have not yet lived?