न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते।तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 4.34Know that the wise who have realized the truth will instruct thee in that knowledge through long prostration, supplication, and service.
• 4.35Knowing that thou shalt not, O Arjuna, again be deluded like this; and by that thou shalt see all beings in thyself and also in me.
• 4.36Even if thou art the most sinful of all sinners, yet thou shalt surely cross over all sins by the raft of knowledge.
• 4.37As the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all actions to ash.

• 4.38Verily, there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He who is perfected in Yoga finds it within the Self in due time.

• 4.39The one who is full of faith, devoted to it, and has subdued their senses obtains this knowledge; and upon obtaining the knowledge, they attain the supreme peace immediately.
• 4.40The ignorant, the faithless, and the doubting self go to destruction; there is neither this world nor the other, nor happiness for the doubting one.
• 4.41He who has renounced actions through Yoga, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge, and who is self-possessed—such a one is not bound by actions, O Arjuna.
• 4.42Therefore, with the sword of knowledge (of the Self), cut asunder the doubt of the self, born of ignorance, residing in your heart, and take refuge in Yoga. Arise, O Arjuna!

na

not

hi

certainly

jñānena

with divine knowledge

sadṛiśham

like

pavitram

pure

iha

in this world

vidyate

exists

tat

that

svayam

oneself

yoga

practice of yog

sansiddhaḥ

he who has attained perfection

kālena

in course of time

ātmani

wihtin the heart

vindati

finds