[Advaita-l] Jnana Yoga and Bhagavad Gita

[shriharsha chatra]

Thank You Sadanandaji for your answer

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:54 PM, kuntimaddi sadananda <
kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Harsha Chitraji - PraNAms
>
> Since you are asking in the advaita list, the answer is obvious.
> But just to be brief and to the point - if aatma jnaanam is about oneself
> and the other jnaanam is anaatma jnaanam which is non-self, we are left with
> not advaita but dvaita; unless that aatma jnaanam involves knowing there is
> nothing other than aatma - sarva bhuutastam aatmaanam sarvabhuutanica
> aatmani - says Krishna in the 6th Ch.- one who sees oneself in all and all
> in oneself. That leaves all the anaatma as mithyaa only or has no
> substantiality for it. That is the aatma jnaanam that Krishna emphasizes in
> Gita. Essentially it implies that the total knowledge that emphasized in
> Gita involves - there are no two but only one and that you can call it as
> aatma jnaanam or paramaatma jnaanam, since in the very next sloka He says -
> yo maam pasyati sarvatra sarvanca mayi pasyati - who ever sees Me everywhere
> and everything in Me - he really sees. Here seeing means understanding - I
> hope you see the point.
>
> Then the knowledge emphasized in Gita becomes advaitic knowledge or
> knowledge of the reality which is advaita.
>
> Hope this answers your question.
>
> Hari Om!
> Sadananda
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 5/31/11, shriharsha chatra <hschatra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: shriharsha chatra <hschatra at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Jnana Yoga and Bhagavad Gita
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 1:30 PM
>
>
> Dear Learned Member,
>
> First and foremost I want to let you know that I am a novice when it comes
> the interpreting Bhagavad Gita, so I am here to clarify one of those
> doubts.
>
> Whenever lord Krishna refer to Jnana Yoga and Jnani does lord refer
> interpret as  Advaitic principle, or in other worlds Jnana in Bhagavad Gita
> can be termed as Atma Jnana.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Harsha Chatra
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