Vers 4.38

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।

तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥

4.38

Transliteratie

na hi jñānena sadṛśaṃ pavitramiha vidyate |

tatsvayaṃ yogasaṃsiddhaḥ kālenātmani vindati ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

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

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Woord voor woord

not
indeed
to knowledge
equal
purifier
here
exists

that
oneself
perfected in yoga
in time
in oneself
finds

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Uitleg

Krishna declares that nothing purifies like knowledge (jñāna). He then adds that one who has matured through yoga finds this knowledge within himself in time. This balances the earlier verse about learning from teachers. Knowledge is received from those who have seen the truth, but it also ripens from within through practice. Both are needed. The phrase in due time, kālena, recognises that spiritual growth is gradual. Arjuna is not expected to grasp everything at once, but to walk a path that leads there.