prajñā

  • consciousness — Bg. 2.58plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.58

    One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.    , Bg. 2.61plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.61

    One who restrains his senses and fixes his consciousness upon Me is known as a man of steady intelligence.
  • intelligence — Bg. 2.68plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.68

    Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.    , SB 4.29.1a-2aplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.29.1a-2a

    A desire to maintain body, wife and children is also observed in animal society. The animals have full intelligence to manage such affairs. If a human being is simply advanced in this respect, what is the difference between him and an animal? One should be very careful to understand that this human life is attained after many, many births in the evolutionary process. A learned man who gives up the bodily conception of life, both gross and subtle, will, by the enlightenment of spiritual knowledge, become a prominent individual spirit soul, as the Supreme Lord is also.
  • introspective knowledge — SB 1.13.29plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.13.29

    Thus Mahārāja Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the scion of the family of Ajamīḍha, firmly convinced by introspective knowledge [prajñā], broke at once the strong network of familial affection by his resolute determination. Thus he immediately left home to set out on the path of liberation, as directed by his younger brother Vidura.
  • perfect knowledge — Bg. 2.57plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.57

    He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.

prājña

  • worshipable personalities — Bg. 17.14plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.14

    The austerity of the body consists in this: worship of the Supreme Lord, the brāhmaṇas, the spiritual master, and superiors like the father and mother. Cleanliness, simplicity, celibacy and nonviolence are also austerities of the body.

prajñā-vādāḥ

  • learned talks — Bg. 2.11plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.11

    The Blessed Lord said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead.

akṛta-prajña

  • O foolish rascal — SB 9.9.35plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.9.35

    O foolish, sinful person, because you have eaten my husband when I was sexually inclined and desiring to have the seed of a child, I shall also see you die when you attempt to discharge semen in your wife. In other words, whenever you attempt to sexually unite with your wife, you shall die.