Bhagavad Gita 14.1
श्रीभगवानुवाच । परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम् । यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः ॥ १ ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca | paraṁ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṁ jñānam uttamam | yaj jñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṁ siddhim ito gatāḥ ||1||
Translation
The Holy One said: I will declare again the highest knowledge, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have gone from here to the supreme perfection.
Reflection
What knowledge in your life would you trust more if you knew its lineage?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Fourteen
Krishna marks a fresh start. The Field-and-Knower chapter ended with vision; this one returns to the workshop. He calls what follows the best of all knowledge, and gives a pedigree: this is the route the munis took out. Hearing that lineage matters. It tells the listener the map is well-traveled before they look at it. The framing also signals that perfection is not invented locally. It is inherited, recognized, walked. The chapter will hand over an instrument: the three-guna analysis of every state of mind. That instrument is the knowledge being praised.