ज्ञान gyān

Gyan. spiritual knowledge, directly given by God

ज्ञान gyān. Knowledge (gyan) Understanding the soul, the Supreme Soul as well as the unlimited history and geography of the world.

ज्ञान jñāna n (S) Knowledge in general; any science or objective matter appropriate to the exercise of the understanding or mind. 2 Knowledge of a specific and religious kind,—that which is derived from meditation and the study of philosophy; which teaches man the divine origin and nature of his immaterial portion, and the unreality of corporal enjoyments, sufferings, and experiences, and the illusoriness of the external and objective universe; and which, sanctifying him during life from earthly attachments and fleshly affections, accomplishes for him after death emancipation from individual existence and reunion with the universal spirit. 3 Understanding; i.e. the intellectual percipience or faculty, or the product of the application and exercise of it—sense, sapience, judgment, intelligence, information, or knowledge. 4 An impression upon the understanding; an apprehension or a conviction of; an understanding or a conception of.