# Bhagavad Gita 5.16

**Canonical reference:** `gita.5.16`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः।
तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ॥

## IAST

jñānena tu tadajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitamātmanaḥ
teṣāmādityavajjñānaṃ prakāśayati tatparam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

hence all creatures are deluded. But to those who have destroyed that ignorance by knowledge of the self, (such) knowledge like the sun

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