Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 - JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 38

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Supremacy of Knowledge 34-39

 Radha Rani

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 4 -JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 38

 Na hi gyanena sadrisham  pavitramiha vidhyate I

Tat svayam yoga samsiddham kalena atmani vindati II sloka 38

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विध्यते ।

तत् स्वयं योग संसिद्धं कालेन आत्मनि विन्दति ।। श्लोक ३८ 

There is no purifier in this world like knowleddge. He that is perfected in yoga realises it in his own heart in due time.

A man dreams that he is being tortured to death. All remedial measures adopted in that dream are of no avail to this  victim. The dream requires to be snapped and the man brought to wakefulness. This done he clarifies to himself that nobody subjected him to torture and that his agony was his own creation. Wakeful state here is the purifier of the self imposed ignorance in dream. Likewise, self knowledge cleanses man of the delusion of birth and death. It reinstates him in his original blessedness. Knowledge is therefore the best among purifiers of man. The proper practise of karma yoga transforms the life of the yogi into gyana yagna. His mind thereby gets purified and he becomes competent in course of time for self knowledge.

The baby takes 10 months for its development in the womb. Similarly is there any time limit for the attainment of jnana. The explanation comes in the next sloka.