Sanskrit
ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः । तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ॥
jñānena tu tad ajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitam ātmanaḥ teṣām ādityavaj jñānaṃ prakāśayati tat param
Translation
Verily, in whom unwisdom is destroyed by the wisdom of the Self, in them wisdom, shining as the sun, reveals the Supreme.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The sun simile arrives on schedule: once ignorance is destroyed by the wisdom belonging to the Self, that wisdom illuminates the Supreme the way sunlight reveals what was always there, unbuilt and unadded, simply uncovered. Jñāna is not information gathered but a covering removed, consistent with the previous verse’s āvṛta — the metaphysics running through this stretch of the chapter is consistently subtractive rather than additive. This pair of verses is easy to skim past as generic praise of “wisdom,” but the specific covering-and-uncovering model they propose is a genuine philosophical position, not decoration.