Bhagavad Gita 10.11 तेषामेवानुकम्पार्थमहमज्ञानजं तमः

Bhagavad Gita 10.11 — word by word

Explanation

Out of compassion for these devotees, Krishna says, he himself, dwelling within their hearts, destroys the darkness born of ignorance with the shining lamp of knowledge. The devotee's love is met by the Lord's grace, which works from the inside, lighting the way to understanding.

This completes the four verses 10.8 to 10.11. Shankara takes ātma-bhāva-sthaḥ as the Lord abiding in the inner faculty of the devotee, and describes the lamp as discriminative knowledge fed by the oil of devotion and protected from the winds of distraction. Ramanuja reads the verse as the Lord, out of pure compassion, making himself the object of their knowledge. The image of a lamp suggests that ignorance is not destroyed by force but simply vanishes once light appears.

भावार्थ

उन पर कृपा करने के लिए ही मैं उनके हृदय में स्थित होकर, ज्ञान के प्रकाशमान दीपक से उनके अज्ञान से उत्पन्न अन्धकार को नष्ट कर देता हूँ। भक्त के प्रेम का उत्तर भगवान अपनी कृपा से भीतर से ज्ञान का प्रकाश देकर देते हैं।

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