Definition of "jnana" []

• Knowledge, as acquired through meditation, that one's self (atman) is identical with Ultimate Reality Brahman. (noun)
• Pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances. (noun)

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• "If you purify it completely, you can achieve great knowledge, this system of yoga is called jnana yoga or the path of wisdom."
• "The yoga he admired was of the philosophical variety that sought the “yoking” of the mind, what Hindus speak of as jnana yoga, not the lower form caricatured in the West as the practice of lying upon a bed of spiked nails or gazing steadfastly at the sun."
• "One of the major causes of illness according to the Ayurveda is called jnana-aparadha or offense against knowledge."
• "The yoga he admired was of the philosophical variety that sought the “yoking” of the mind, what Hindus speak of as jnana yoga, not the lower form caricatured in the West as the practice of lying upon a bed of spiked nails or gazing steadfastly at the sun."