Bharat Devotion

Jnana

(ज्ञान)

Literal Meaning

Knowing

Etymology & Sanskrit Root

Sanskrit jnana, from the root jna (to know): knowledge, especially knowledge of the self and the real.

Spiritual Insight & Context

The path of knowing, one of the three paths named in the Gita beside bhakti (devotion) and karma (action). In Jainism the same word names the five kinds of knowledge.

Where Jnana Comes Up