Reflections for the Soul: Pearls of Vedic Wisdom Reflections for the Soul: Pearls of Vedic Wisdom | Page 78

Knowledge
Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; ap-
proaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-
control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence
of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and
disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children,
wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and
unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspir-
ing to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of
people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philo-
sophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I declare to be
knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.
- BG 13:8-12 -
In the material world, one who is unaffected
by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither
praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed
in perfect knowledge. - BG 2:57 -
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