The Bhāgavata said that He must be cognizant. He's not dead; He must be cognizant. And what kind of cognizance? Anvayād itarataś cārtheṣu. Just like I am cognizant, you are also cognizant. But I do not know, myself, how many hairs are there in my body. I'm claiming, "This is my head," but if I ask anybody, "Do you know how many hairs you have got in your body . . .?" That kind of knowledge is not knowledge.
But the Supreme, Bhāgavata says that He knows everything, directly and indirectly. I know I am eating, but I do not know how my eating process is helping my circulation of blood, how it is being transformed, how it is working, how it is going through the veins. I do not know anything. But God must be He who knows everything. Every corner of His creation what is going on He must know. Therefore the Bhāgavata explains that Supreme Truth from whom everything is emanated, He must be supremely cognizant. Cognizant. Abhijñaḥ. Abhijñaḥ means cognizant.
Then you may question: "Then if He is so powerful, wise and cognizant, He must have learned it from similar . . ." No. He says that if he learns knowledge from somebody else, then he is not God. Svarāṭ. Automatically. He's self-independent. This is jñāna-yoga: the study,what is the nature, by . . . just analyze what should be the nature of the Supreme, from whom everything is emanating.
That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Therefore Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the supreme jñāna-yoga and bhakti-yoga combined. Yes. (pause) jñāna-yoga process means to search out the Absolute Truth or to understand the nature of the Absolute Truth by philosophical way. And this is called jñāna-yoga. And our is bhakti-yoga.
Bhakti-yoga means the process is the same, target is the same. One is trying to reach the supreme ultimate goal by philosophical way, one is trying to concentrate his mind on the Supreme, and the other, the bhaktas, they are simply engaging themselves to serve the Supreme Lord so easily. One process is to understand by the ascending process, and another process is the descending process.