1. The real knowledge of a state means complete identicality with the state we have merged in. SMP-29 CH III knowledge and nature
  2. Yogic practices and Sadhanas based on knowledge acquired through books, are mostly misleading and even harmful to our spiritual advancement. RD -36
  3. Immense peace may perhaps be interpreted by the word Jnana.In short Jnana is not ‘knowing’, but ‘having’. This is the condition when knowledge and action become one.
  4. Jnana-The word in the ordinary sense means knowledge which may be of different kinds, physical, mental, material or spiritual. In the spiritual sense the term is applied so vaguely that often it becomes very difficult to understand its true significance. The range it covers extends from the baser level of common understanding to higher level of inner enlightenment. This gives rise to a lot of confusion and misunderstanding. A man who has learnt a few scriptures, another who can argue and assert things on the basis of his book knowledge, still another who recites every moment set phrases like ‘Aham-Brahmasmi-I am Brahma’ etc., claims to be Jnani or the enlightened and is accepted as such by the masses, irrespective of his real inner state. Jnana in the real sense refers to the inner condition of the mind which an Abhyasi develops during the course of his pursuit, while passing through different spiritual states at different knots or Granthis. Jnana is in fact the realisation of the conditions prevailing at each knot. Now since the knots are innumerable, the knowledge gained is also different according to the level of approach of the Abhyasi. Thus it is almost meaningless to call one a Jnani without defining his level of approach or the limit of knowledge realized by him. This is the main point which is meant to be elucidated to the readers through the contents of this little book.  TI P3
  5. In the morning it occurred to me during meditation that a Jnani is one who does not lament over the past and is grateful for the present. AB I P 45 16 Feb 1929
  6. Jnana or knowledge extends extends from the baser level of common understanding to the higher level of inner enlightenment. The real state of enlightenment comes when we get into full consciousness of the condition of enlightenment, and after imbibing its effect secure our merging in it. SMP 29-30
  7. The reality within and without is Jnana AB I P 32 14 april 1928