1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 11

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1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 11

Sita Rama at Tirumala

Adhyatma jnana nityatvam jnana artha darshanam I

Etat jnanam iti proktam ajnanam yat atah anyatah II sloka 11

आअध्यत्म ज्ञान नित्यत्वं ज्ञान अर्थ दर्शनं I

एतत् ज्ञानं इति प्रोक्तं अज्ञान यत् अतः अन्यतः II श्लोक 11  

Constancy in self-knowledge, perception of the end of the knowledge of truth; this is declared to be knowledge, and what is opposed to it is ignorance.

Sentimental devotion to the maker is not sufficient. Divine love ought to be seasoned by diligent inquiry into the nature of the self and non-self. Brahman is truth. All endeavours ought to be directed to the realization of this verity. Pursuit of Brahma Vidya as provided in the upanishads is the infallible means to this great end. 

All the dispositions elaborated from the seventh stanza upto this, contribute jointly to the development of wisdom, the divine eye and the intuitive faculty leadding to the realization of Brahman. These dispositions are all called Jnana because of their great and unfailing contribution to it. 

Dispositions counter to them are vanity, self-esteem, injury, revengefulness, crookedness, indifference towards the teacher, dirty habits, fickleness, self-indulgence, longing for the objects of the senses, egoism, preception of pleasure in bodily life, earthy attachment, identification of self with son, wife, home and the like, restlessness due to the occurrence of the desirable and the undesirable, lack of devotion to the maker, longing for social life and dislike for sacred studies. people inclined in these ways contaminate their minds; they do not grow in wisdom and self--knowledge

Does any good come from Brahma jnana? The answer comes