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Verse 5·16

Perfect vision sees neither gain nor loss

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ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः ।तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ॥

jñānena tu tadajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitamātmanaḥteṣāmādityavajjñānaṃ prakāśayati tatparam

Verily, in whom ignorance is destroyed by self-knowledge, in them knowledge lights up like a sun the supreme Self (within them).

Gītā 5·16

This knowledge of which the Gita speaks, is not an intellectual activity of the mind; it is a luminous growth into the highest state of being by the outshining of the light of the divine sun of Truth,… it shines out like a long-hidden sun and lights up to our vision that self-being supreme beyond the dualities of this lower existence.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · pp. 201–02

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