Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 1

श्रीभगवानुवाच । परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम् । यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः

śrībhagavānuvāca | paraṃ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṃ jñānamuttamam | yajjñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṃ siddhimito gatāḥ

Translation

I shall again declare that sublime knowledge, the best of all knowledges; which having learnt, all the sages have passed to high perfection from here.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

param

highest

bhūyaḥ

again

pravakṣyāmi

(I) will declare

jñānānām

of wisdoms

jñānam

the wisdom

uttamam

best

yat

which

jñātvā

having known

munayaḥ

munis

sarve

all

parām

(to the) highest

siddhim

to perfection

itaḥ

hence

gatāḥ

gone

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Though declared more than once in the preceding discourses, I shall again declare that knowledge which is sublime as concerning itself with the Supreme Being, and which is the best of all knowledges as productive of the best result. 'All knowledges' refers to those kinds of knowledge which relate to sacrifices and other such things to be known. These do not lead to salvation, whereas the knowledge which is going to be imparted in this discourse does lead to salvation. So the Lord praises this latter knowledge by the epithets 'sublime' and 'best,' in order to rouse interest in the minds of the hearers. Having learnt this knowledge, all the sages (munis) — the saṃnyāsins, those who are devoted to contemplation (manana) — have passed from here, from this bondage of the body, to high perfection known as mokṣa or liberation.