ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ता च त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः।
प्रोच्यते गुणसंख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि।।18.19।।
।।18.19।। ज्ञान? कर्म और कर्ता भी गुणों के भेद से सांख्यशास्त्र (गुणसंख्याने) में त्रिविध ही कहे गये हैं उनको भी तुम मुझ से यथावत् श्रवण करो।।
Knowledge is understanding the action to be performed. The effort is the means and method to perform the action and included with the agent as the performer of the action. The phrase guna-sankhya refers to the Sankhya philosophy of analytical deduction by Lord Krishnas incarnation of Kapila- deva, which describes the characteristics of the three gunas or modes of material nature and their relationship to knowledge and agent as described in the next three verses.
