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The Blessed Lord said I will again declare (to thee) that supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, having known which all the sages have gone to the supreme perfection after this life.

The Lord said: I will tell you once more that supreme knowledge, the highest of all kinds of knowledge, knowing which all the sages have gone from here to the highest perfection.

Chapter fourteen opens with Krishna offering, unasked, to speak further. He calls what he will now teach the supreme knowledge, the best among all kinds of knowing, and says that through it the sages have passed from this world to the highest perfection. The previous chapter distinguished nature from the knower and mentioned that attachment to the qualities of nature causes rebirth. This chapter will explain those qualities in detail. Krishna's opening praise of the teaching signals its importance: understanding the qualities is essential to understanding how one is bound and how one becomes free.