Passage 4

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God alone, beyond place, time and circumstance, is wisdom itself embodied

The third is ‘kevalaṃ jñānamūrtiṃ’. What does kevala mean? He who is beyond place and time. Every object in the world is tied to place and time. It is because He is beyond place and time and there is nothing in the world greater than He that they called Him ‘kevalaṃ’. One beyond the sway of place, time and circumstance is the third Guru. He is God. What does Jñāna mean? What is this Jñāna? Is it physical knowledge? Is it knowledge of matter? Or is it knowledge of chemistry? Or what knowledge is this? Is it science? No, no. All these kinds of knowledge are built out of matter. Physical knowledge is what makes us recognise how all the things in the world change. Jñāna is that which is the root and support of all knowledge, beyond all knowledge, infinite, unmanifest, hidden, and abiding as one. That is, ‘Advaitadarśanaṃ jñānaṃ.’ Everything is one, one, one. There is no second thing at all in the world. If there is, it is this thing's Reaction, Reflection, Resound, not a second. True Jñāna is the very vision of one's own true form! Knowing oneself is true Jñāna. To what place does a man go when he tries to know himself? To what Guru does he go for refuge? Sir! If he goes about asking where he is, he is not a true jñāni but an ignorant one. No one tries to search for himself in the world outside. Today, because people have turned into such men, they remain ignorant. Only he who comes to recognise himself is the jñāni. There is none but God who has come to recognise His own principle. So God alone is the embodiment of Jñāna. He is the embodiment of Satya. He is the embodiment of the infinite. That is why they said, ‘Satyaṃ jñānaṃ anantaṃ brahma.’ This is ‘kevalaṃ jñānamūrtiṃ’.