Word meanings
- jñānena
- by divine knowledge
- tu
- but
- tat
- that
- ajñānam
- ignorance
- yeṣām
- whose
- nāśitam
- has been destroyed
- ātmanaḥ
- of the self
- teṣām
- their
- āditya-vat
- like the sun
- jñānam
- knowledge
- prakāśayati
- illumines
- tat
- that
- param
- Supreme Entity
Translations
But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme Brahman.
Surely, wisdom is like the sun, revealing the supreme truth to those whose ignorance has been dispelled by the wisdom of the Self.
But in the case of those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge (of the Self), their knowledge, like the sun, reveals that supreme Reality.
परन्तु जिन्होंने अपने जिस ज्ञान-(विवक-) के द्वारा उस अज्ञानका नाश कर दिया है, उनका वह ज्ञान सूर्यकी तरह परमतत्त्व परमात्माको प्रकाशित कर देता है।Commentary
When ignorance, the root cause of human sufferings, is annihilated by the knowledge of the Self, this knowledge illuminates the Supreme Brahman or that highest immortal Being, just as the sun illumines all the objects of this gross, physical universe.