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श्री भगवानुवाच इदं तु ते गुह्यतमं प्रवक्ष्याम्यनसूयवे। ज्ञानं विज्ञानसहितं यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात्।।

śrī-bhagavān uvāca idaṁ tu te guhyatamaṁ pravakṣyāmy anasūyave jñānaṁ vijñāna-sahitaṁ yaj jñātvā mokṣyase ’śubhāt

śrī-bhagavān (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) uvāca (said) idam (this) tu (but) te (unto you) guhya-tamam (most confidential) pravakṣyāmi (I shall speak) anasūyave (to the non-envious) jñānam (knowledge) vijñāna (realization) sahitam (with) yat (which) jñātvā (knowing) mokṣyase (you will be released) aśubhāt (from miseries)

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most confidential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence.

Kṛṣṇa begins the ninth chapter by introducing the ‘King of Knowledge’. He calls it ‘guhya-tamam’, the most secret and confidential of all wisdom. He is choosing to speak this to Arjuna for one specific reason: “because you are not envious of Me.” ‘Anasūya’, or non-enviousness, is the key to spiritual progress. If a person resents God’s supremacy, they will never understand the deep truths of the Gītā. They will see Kṛṣṇa’s instructions as arrogant. But Arjuna is a friend and a lover of the Lord, so he is qualified to receive the heart of the message. Kṛṣṇa promises that this knowledge, combined with realization (‘vijñāna’), will free Arjuna from all the miseries of material life. It is the ultimate antidote to suffering. Kṛṣṇa is about to reveal how He personally interacts with the world and how a simple act of love can break the chains of karma forever.
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