jnana (jñāna)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Alternate Spellings: jñana

Short Description: Knowing or understanding

Long Description: Knowing or understanding. Though usually translated into English as “knowledge”, “jñāna” does not mean proficiency in a subject like history or physics. It is not mere learning but inward experience or awareness of a truth. In Advaita it is the realization that one is inseparably united with the Supreme.