| 1. The Blessed
Lord said:To thee who dost not cavil, I shall now declare this, the greatest
secret, knowledge combined with experience, which having known thou shall
be liberated from evil.This: the BrahmaJnana, the, knowledge of Brahman,
which is going to be declared, and which has been declared in the preceding
discourses. Now: this word points to the superiority of knowledge (over
Dhyana): this right knowledge alone forms the direct means of attaining
moksha; as declared in the sruti and the smriti: Vasudeva is the All (Bhagavadgita,
v. 19.) And nothing else is a direct means to moksha, as the passages of
the sruti like the following declare:Now the other princes who understand
otherwise than thus, they shall attain to perishable regions. On attaining
this knowledge you will be liberated from the bondage of samsara. And it
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