14.1 Again, the highest knowledge Krishna speaks
परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्
यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः
paraṁ bhūyaḥ pravakṣhyāmi jñānānāṁ jñānam uttamam
yaj jñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṁ siddhim ito gatāḥ
I will declare again the highest knowledge, best of all knowledge, by knowing which those who practise have reached perfection.
Explanation
Again — and the word is doing work.
bhūyaḥ: once more. Krishna has already declared the highest knowledge in chapters 7, 9 and 13, and says so.
Which tells you what to expect. This chapter is not new doctrine but a mechanism — the working parts behind claims already made, and the most diagnostic thing in the book.
Word by word
- śhrī-bhagavān uvācha
- the Divine Lord said
- param
- supreme
- bhūyaḥ
- again
- pravakṣhyāmi
- I shall explain
- jñānānām
- of all knowledge
- jñānam uttamam
- the supreme wisdom
- yat
- which
- jñātvā
- knowing
- munayaḥ
- saints
- sarve
- all
- parām
- highest
- siddhim
- perfection
- itaḥ
- through this
- gatāḥ
- attained
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