Jnana and Vijnana

"The yogi who is filled with the contentment of wisdom asn discriminative knowledge,who is firm as a rock,who has masteres his senses,and to whom a cold of earth,a stone and gold are the same,is possessed of Yoga."

Jnana here means listening to reading from shastras,mediating over them,studing them,and vijnana means realizing the atman in direct experience.Jnana is understanding through reason,and vijnana is that knowledge which sinks through reason into experience.Jnana is knowledge obtained from shastras,where as vijnana is knowledge whish is part of one's experience.Non-violence will have become direct experience for us in this sense when our whole life comes tp be permeated wit the spirit of compassion,when non-violence manifests itself in us in its true essence.That boy who comes to fell compassion as his own experience will to that extent have purifies himself ,or attained knowledge of the self.

He whose atman is filled to perfect contentment with such Jnana and vijana,who dwells firmly like kuta-he is a kutastha that is who endures blows as the anvil does without ever breaking into pieces,remains unshaken in the midst of even extreme suffering-who has subdued his senses completely,such a one may be described as a yogi who has attained freedom.He has become united with God,has become inwardly purifies.To such a Yogi,clay,stone and gold,all are equal.All three come from earth.Earth which has hardened is stone.Gold silver diamonds,sapphire,all these are transformations of earth.But they are all without any worth-everyone of them is but dust.If we shed greed,we would look upon all these articles with the same eye.