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Chapter 9 · Verse 1 · Raja Vidya Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 9.1

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Sanskrit

श्री भगवानुवाच इदं तु ते गुह्यतमं प्रवक्ष्याम्यनसूयवे। ज्ञानं विज्ञानसहितं यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात्।।9.1।।

Transliteration

śhrī bhagavān uvācha idaṁ tu te guhyatamaṁ pravakṣhyāmyanasūyave jñānaṁ vijñāna-sahitaṁ yaj jñātvā mokṣhyase ’śhubhāt

Word by Word

śhrī-bhagavān uvācha the Supreme Lord said
idam this
tu but
te to you
guhya-tamam the most confidential
pravakṣhyāmi I shall impart
anasūyave nonenvious
jñānam knowledge
vijñāna realized knowledge
sahitam with
yat which
jñātvā knowing
mokṣhyase you will be released
aśhubhāt miseries of material existence
Simplified Perspective

Krishna opens the ninth chapter with supreme tenderness—He is about to unveil the Raja Vidya, the king of all knowledge, reserved only for those free from envy and resistance. This is not intellectual information but living wisdom that dissolves the illusion of separation between the knower and the known, between your eternal Self and the Divine.

When you truly absorb this knowledge not just mentally but as lived reality, the chains of suffering fall away because you recognize there was never anything binding you except your own forgetting. In our modern search for answers—through therapy, philosophy, spirituality—we often miss that the most liberating knowledge is already waiting within us, requiring only a sincere heart and willingness to receive.

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Bhagavad Gita 9.1 — BG 9.1

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Sanskrit text from the Bhagavad Gita (public domain). Commentary © Mahakatha.

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