Sanskrit
इदं तु ते गुह्यतमं प्रवक्ष्याम्यनसूयवे । ज्ञानं विज्ञानसहितं यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात् ॥
idaṃ tu te guhyatamaṃ pravakṣyāmy anasūyave jñānaṃ vijñānasahitaṃ yaj jñātvā mokṣyase'śubhāt
Translation
To thee, the uncarping, verily shall I declare this profoundest Secret, wisdom with knowledge combined, which, having known, thou shalt be freed from evil.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Krishna opens a new movement in the teaching by promising “the profoundest secret” (guhyatamam) combined with direct realization (vijnana) rather than theoretical knowledge (jnana) alone — a step beyond the metaphysics laid out in earlier chapters. The chapter’s own title, “kingly knowledge, kingly secret,” is effectively previewed here in the verse’s own vocabulary before verse 2 states it outright. Addressing Arjuna as “the uncarping” (anasūyave, free of fault-finding) sets receptivity as a precondition for what follows.