ज्ञानं विशुद्धं परमार्थमेक- मनन्तरं त्वबहिर्ब्रह्म सत्यम् । प्रत्यक् प्रशान्तं भगवच्छब्दसंज्ञं यद्वासुदेवं कवयो वदन्ति ॥ ११ ॥
jnanam visuddham paramartham ekam anantaram tv abahir brahma satyam pratyak prasantam bhagavac-chabda-samjnam yad vasudevam kavayo vadanti
- jnanam
- the supreme knowledge
- visuddham
- without contamination
- parama-artham
- giving the ultimate goal of life
- ekam
- unified
- anantaram
- without interior, unbroken
- tu
- also
- abahih
- without exterior
- brahma
- the Supreme
- satyam
- Absolute Truth
- pratyak
- inner
- prasantam
- the calm and peaceful Supreme Lord, worshiped by the yogis
- bhagavat-sabda-samjnam
- known in the higher sense as Bhagavan, or full of all opulences
- yat
- that
- vasudevam
- Lord Krsna, the son of Vasudeva
- kavayah
- the learned scholars
- vadanti
- say
What, then, is the ultimate truth? The answer is that nondual knowledge is the ultimate truth. It is devoid of the contamination of material qualities. It gives us liberation. It is the one without a second, all-pervading and beyond imagination. The first realization of that knowledge is Brahman. Then Paramatma, the Supersoul, is realized by the yogis who try to see Him without grievance. This is the second stage of realization. Finally, full realization of the same supreme knowledge is realized in the Supreme Person. All learned scholars describe the Supreme Person as Vasudeva, the cause of Brahman, Paramatma and others.