<\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is also very interesting to note here that Krishna says that all this is gyanam<\/em>. Remember, we started by saying what is gyanam<\/em> and what is gneyam\u2013<\/em> What is knowledge and what is the thing to be known? The thing to be known will be clarified in the next few posts. Here, he calls this as knowledge, though this is not knowledge.<\/em> As I said earlier, these are the qualities of the mind which will help one gain knowledge. Therefore, he says, any other quality that is opposed to this is `agyanam\u2019<\/em>, `ignorance\u2019, because it will keep one\u2019s ignorance going. Earlier, he had said, `No emotional dependence\u2019, `free from emotional dependence\u2019. Therefore, if you are emotionally dependent, you\u2019re definitely not going to understand the independent atma<\/em>. Therefore, `emotional dependence\u2019 will be equated to `agyanam\u2019<\/em>,  or, actually, the ramification of my ignorance. Similarly, he had talked about `integrity\u2019 in an earlier post. If there is integrity, what you know will flow through into your life, but if one is a disintegrated personality, then it won\u2019t. Therefore, the lack of integrity would become conducive to agnyanam<\/em>, because it keeps one\u2019s ignorance going. I had also mentioned `healthy self-esteem\u2019 in an earlier post. If I don\u2019t have a healthy self-esteem, I won\u2019t even have the courage to try for moksha<\/em>. Therefore, all these values we have discussed in this and earlier posts are (not to be taken as `knowledge\u2019 but as) conducive to gaining knowledge and making it a fact of one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again, the next two values go together. The first one is `adhyatma gyana nithyatvam\u2019. `Nithyatvam\u2019 means `regularity\u2019. Not `constantly\u2019, but `regularly\u2019 exposing oneself to the knowledge of `adhyatma\u2019 meaning `self-knowledge\u2019. Remember, as I have said before, the problem of bondage is of self-ignorance. There is no real bondage. The whole problem is based on missing oneself,… Continue reading 9.Regular Study The Journey, Moksha The Goal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-known-and-the-knower-ch-13","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n