Chapter 5 · Verse 16 · Karma Sanyasa Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 5.16
Sanskrit
ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः। तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम्।।5.16।।
Transliteration
jñānena tu tad ajñānaṁ yeṣhāṁ nāśhitam ātmanaḥ teṣhām āditya-vaj jñānaṁ prakāśhayati tat param
In plain words
You're drowning in confusion—about who you are, what you're meant to do, why this is happening to you. Krishna says: there is a knowledge inside you, deeper than all your doubt and fear, that doesn't come from thinking harder or gathering more answers. When you stop fighting yourself and let that inner knowing wake up, it burns through the fog like sunlight through clouds—and suddenly you can see.
Word by Word
When the fire of divine knowledge burns away the darkness of ignorance from the temple of your own being, that knowledge becomes a sun within you—endless, ever-shining, needing no external fuel. The Vedantic masters teach us that this is not intellectual understanding but direct recognition of your true Self.
In our modern search for clarity and meaning, this verse invites you to stop accumulating information and instead kindle the transformative knowing that dissolves confusion at its root.
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Bhagavad Gita 5.16 — BG 5.16
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