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Chapter 4, Verse 34

तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया। उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः।।4.34।।

tadviddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā. upadekṣyanti te jñānaṃ jñāninastattvadarśinaḥ..4.34..

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tat
that (knowledge)
viddhi
know (imperative)
praṇipātena
by prostration/humble submission
paripraśnena
by inquiry/questioning
sevayā
by service
upadekṣyanti
they will instruct/teach
te
to you
jñānam
knowledge
jñāninaḥ
the knowers/wise ones
tattva-darśinaḥ
seers of truth/reality

Commentary

34. Know this : by long prostration, by enquiry, by service, those men of wisdom who have realised the truth will teach thee wisdom.

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain

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tat
viddhi
praṇipātena
paripraśnena
sevayā
upadekṣyanti
te
jñānam
jñāninaḥ
tattva-darśinaḥ

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