Concentrate your mind on Krishna through devotion, not on empty philosophical voids or mechanical meditation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 6.13–15 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System] — February 16, 1969, Los Angeles 690216BG-LOS ANGELES [47:58 Minutes] Bg-06.13–15_690216BG-LOS ANGELES Devotees: All glories to Śrī guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances] Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Sāṅkhya-yoga is the aṣṭāṅga-yoga. This sitting posture and meditation, this is called sāṅkhya-yoga. And jñāna-yoga means by..., through philosophical process, by analytical process what is Brahman and what is not Brahman.
Neti neti. That is jñāna-yoga. Just like Vedānta-sūtra, jñāna-yoga. You study Vedānta-sūtra, it says janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. [O my Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmājī, the original living being. By Him even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth.] They gives one hint codes, that the Supreme Brahman, Absolute Truth, is that from whom everything is emanated. Now we try to understand what must be that. That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, what is nature of that Absolute Truth. The Absolute Truth, in the first verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said: janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ.
Now the Absolute Truth, if He is the supreme cause of all emanation, then what are the symptoms? The Bhāgavata said that He must be cognizant. He's not dead; He must be cognizant. And what kind of cognizance? Anvayād itarataś cārtheṣu.
Just like I am cognizant, you are also cognizant. But I do not know, myself, how many hairs are there in my body. I'm claiming, "This is my head," but if I ask anybody, "Do you know how many hairs you have got in your body...?" That kind of knowledge is not knowledge. But the Supreme, Bhāgavata says that He knows everything, directly and indirectly. I know I am eating, but I do not know how my eating process is helping my circulation of blood, how it is being transformed, how it is working, how it is going through the veins.
I do not know anything. But God must be He who knows everything. Every corner of His creation what is going on He must know. Therefore the Bhāgavata explains that Supreme Truth from whom everything is emanated, He must be supremely cognizant.
Cognizant. Abhijñaḥ. Abhijñaḥ means cognizant. That you may question: "Then if He is so powerful, wise and cognizant, He must have learned it from similar..." No. He says that if he learns knowledge from somebody else, then he is not God.
Svarāṭ. Automatically. He's self-independent. This is jñāna-yoga: the study,what is the nature, by..., just analyze what should be the nature of the Supreme, from whom everything is emanating. That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.