Word
tattva-vit
Used in 5 verses of the Bhagavad Gita.
How it is translated
- of the truth (1)
- the knower of the Truth (1)
- those who have realized the Truth (1)
- one who knows the truth (1)
- knowledge of spiritual principles (1)
Every verse
- 2.16नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः।nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥThe unreal has no being; there is no non-being of the real; the truth about both has been seen by the knowers of the truth (or the seers of the essence).Here: of the truth
- 3.28तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः।tattva-vit tu mahā-bāho guṇa-karma-vibhāgayoḥBut he who knows the Truth, O mighty-armed Arjuna, about the divisions of the qualities and their functions, knowing that the Gunas, as senses, move amidst the Gunas, as…Here: the knower of the Truth
- 4.34तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया।tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśhnena sevayāKnow that the wise who have realized the truth will instruct thee in that knowledge through long prostration, supplication, and service.Here: those who have realized the Truth
- 5.8नैव किंचित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित्।naiva kiñchit karomīti yukto manyeta tattva-vitI do nothing at all," thus would the harmonized knower of Truth think, seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, and breathing.Here: one who knows the truth
- 13.12अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम्।adhyātma-jñāna-nityatvaṁ tattva-jñānārtha-darśhanamConstancy in Self-knowledge, the perception of the end of true knowledge—this is declared to be knowledge, and what is opposed to it is ignorance.Here: knowledge of spiritual principles