But for those beings whose ignorance, the ignorance by which the deluded are veiled, has been destroyed by the discerning knowledge whose object is the Self, for them that knowledge, like the sun, makes manifest the supreme reality. As the sun makes manifest the whole array of forms, so knowledge makes manifest the whole thing to be known; it makes manifest That, the supreme, the reality in the highest sense. That supreme knowledge, having been made to shine forth.

Among all selves abiding thus, those whose veiling ignorance, the ignorance in the form of the heap of the endless action set going from beginningless time, has been destroyed by the knowledge regarding the self, knowledge born of the teaching of the truth of the self of the character described, made surpassing by daily practice and unsurpassedly purifying; for them that natural and supreme knowledge, unmeasured and uncontracted, lights up everything, like the sun, as it truly stands. The word 'their', spoken in the plural of those whose ignorance is destroyed, shows the manyness of the selves' own nature; what was learned at the opening, 'never was there a time when I was not, nor you, nor these', is here said still more plainly. And this manyness is not made by limiting adjuncts, since for those whose ignorance is destroyed there is not a trace of a limiting adjunct. By the saying 'their knowledge, like the sun', stated as distinct from them, knowledge is said to be a property attendant on the self's own nature; and by the example of the sun the abiding of the knower and knowledge, like that of the sun and its light, is shown. For that very reason the contraction of knowledge by action in the state of transmigration, and its unfolding in the state of liberation, hold good.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Knowledge alone is the destroyer of ignorance, Krishna says, with 'by knowledge'. The first knowledge is the indirect one.