There is "true" knowledge. . . . it is this: to see one changeless life in all the lives, and in the separate, one inseparable. there is imperfect knowledge: that which sees the separate existences apart, and, being separated, holds them real. there is false knowledge: that which blindly clings to one as if 'twere all, seeking no cause, deprived of light, narrow, and dull, and "dark." â€"bhagavad gita how does this passage describe knowledge? it compares three types of knowledge. it tells the effects of gaining knowledge. it explains the cause of understanding knowledge. it shows three steps in order of understanding knowledge.