Bhagavad Gītā · Chapter 7, Verse 2
ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः।
यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते।।
यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते।।
jñānaṁ te ’haṁ sa-vijñānam idaṁ vakṣyāmyaśeṣataḥ
yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo ’nyaj jñātavyam-avaśiṣyate
also searched as "jnanam te 'ham sa-vijnanam idam vakshyamyasheshatah"
Translation
I will declare to you in full this knowledge of God, along with the knowledge that makes it distinguished, knowing which nothing else remains to be known.
Vāṇi's rendering
I will give you knowledge whole — with direct seeing. After it, nothing in this world remains to know.
Word by word
| Sanskrit & transliteration | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ज्ञानम्jñānam | knowledge — what can be taught and understood |
| तेte | to you |
| अहम्aham | I (sandhi: te + aham → te 'ham) |
| सविज्ञानम्sa-vijñānam | together with vijñāna — direct seeing, knowledge lived rather than heard |
| इदम्idam | this |
| वक्ष्यामिvakṣyāmi | I shall declare, I will speak |
| अशेषतःaśeṣataḥ | completely, with nothing held back (sandhi: vakṣyāmi + aśeṣataḥ) |
| यत्yat | which |
| ज्ञात्वाjñātvā | having known |
| नna | not |
| इहiha | here, in this world (sandhi: na + iha → neha) |
| भूयःbhūyaḥ | further, anything more |
| अन्यत्anyat | another thing, something else (sandhi: bhūyaḥ + anyat → bhūyo 'nyat) |
| ज्ञातव्यम्jñātavyam | to be known, still needing to be learned |
| अवशिष्यतेavaśiṣyate | remains, is left over |
Frequently asked
What does Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 Verse 2 mean?
Krishna tells Arjuna he will give knowledge entire, holding nothing back, and give it with vijñāna — the seeing that makes knowledge yours rather than borrowed. And he adds a guarantee: after this, nothing in the world is left to be known. The search itself comes to rest.
What is the meaning of jnanam te aham savijnanam idam vakshyamyasheshatah?
I will speak this knowledge to you completely, together with direct realization. Jñāna is the teaching received; vijñāna is the same teaching become experience. Krishna refuses to give one without the other. Information alone would leave Arjuna exactly where he stands — informed and still unable to lift his bow.
What is the difference between jnana and vijnana in the Gita?
Jñāna is what reaches you through words — heard, studied, agreed with. Vijñāna is when the same thing is no longer a proposition you hold but the ground you stand on. You can recite jñāna to someone. Vijñāna shows only in how you act when everything is at stake.
Why does Krishna say nothing more remains to be known?
Not because you will possess every fact. Because the restlessness that keeps reaching for the next teaching, the next book, the next answer, will have quieted. What ends is not learning but the ache of incompleteness driving it. Notice how much of your seeking is that ache.
Themes in this verse
Read every verse this way, held — inside Vāṇi.
View on the App Store
Commentary
Two words, not one. Jñāna is what you can be told; vijñāna is what you see for yourself, and Krishna promises both in the same breath. Arjuna has heard teaching for six chapters. Now he is offered the difference between a map and the country. Notice the guarantee at the end — nothing remains to know. Not that you will have collected every fact, but that the hunger to collect will have stopped. Most of what you call seeking is that hunger. Krishna is not offering more information. He is offering the end of needing more.