Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]"But those whose ignorance of the Self is destroyed by knowledge — for them, that knowledge, like the sun, illumines the Supreme."
BG 5.16
ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः। तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत् परम्॥५-१६॥
jñānena tu tad ajñānaṃ yeṣāṃ nāśitam ātmanaḥ | teṣām ādityavaj jñānaṃ prakāśayati tat param || 5.16 ||
"When knowledge destroys ignorance of the Self, it illumines the Supreme — like the sun dispelling darkness."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]"But to those whose ignorance of the Self is destroyed by knowledge, that knowledge, like the sun, reveals the Supreme (Brahman)."
Annie Besant & Bhagavan Das, The Bhagavad Gītā (1905)
[5]"But those whose ignorance is destroyed by the wisdom of the SELF, their wisdom, sun-like, illumines the Supreme."
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]"But those whose ignorance of self is destroyed by wisdom, like the sun, wisdom reveals the Supreme."
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]"But those whose darkness is dispelled by light of wisdom, who have their souls absorbed in Him, whose faith is set on Him — such go to where no more return is known, their sins washed white in knowledge."
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]"But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the self, to them that knowledge, like the sun, reveals the supreme."