“But for those in whom that ignorance of Self is by knowledge destroyed, their knowledge like the sun illumines That Supreme.”

— W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 114. (16.)

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British Indologist 1884–1962

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