Undeluded’ means, one who has totally detached oneself from one’s wrong identifications with body, mind, and intellect, and therefore, also from the world of perceptions, feelings, and thoughts, which these vehicles provide.
THUS KNOWS ME — To ‘know’ here is not a mere intellectual comprehension, but a deep subjective spiritual apprehension. That the undeluded one thus experiences in himself that he is the Purushottama-principle Itself, seems to be the suggestion here.
Such a man who has fully identified himself with the Infinite “Me” alone is a true devotee, who ‘WORSHIPS ME WITH ALL HIS BEING’; such a one is the greatest of devotees, declares the Geetaacharya. Identification with the beloved is everywhere the measure of love; the greater the love, the greater is our identification with the object of our love. Therefore, arithmetically, total identification should be the maximum Love or devotion.
The Highest Spirit, Purushottama, being the Infinite Consciousness, it is the ‘All-knower’, inasmuch as whenever anything is known through perception, feeling, or thought, it is the Principle of Consciousness that illumines it. One who has transcended one’s matter-equipments and has successfully sought and discovered one’s spiritual nature as the Infinite Consciousness, that individual, as the Supreme Awareness, is indicated here as the “All-knower” (Sarvavit).
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THE LORD IS THE THEME OF THIS CHAPTER AND THE FOLLOWING CONCLUDING VERSE KRISHNA EXTOLS THIS THEME, WHICH GIVES LIBERATION TO MAN FROM ALL HIS FLESH-BORN SORROWS, MIND-BORN AGITATIONS AND INTELLECT-BORN RESTLESS-NESS:
