The Yoga of Knowledge

Krishna uses a vivid analogy: when you have access to a vast, overflowing lake (samplutodake), what use is a small well (udapāna)? The well served its purpose, but becomes irrelevant when unlimited water surrounds you. Similarly, the Vedas guide action and offer knowledge. But for one who truly knows (vijānataḥ)—who has realized the Supreme Reality—those scriptures become as limited as a well beside an ocean. They pointed the way, but the realized being has arrived. Direct realization surpasses scriptural knowledge the way an ocean surpasses a well.