Chapter 13
Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga
The Field and the Knower of the Field
- Verse 13.1This body, O son of Kuntî! is called Kshetra, and the learned call him who knows it the Kshetragña.
- Verse 13.2And know me also, O descendant of Bharata! to be the Kshetragña in all Kshetras. The knowledge of Kshetra and…
- Verse 13.3Now hear from me in brief what that Kshetra (is), what (it is) like, what changes (it undergoes), and whence (it…
- Verse 13.4(all which) is sung in various ways by sages in numerous hymns, distinctly, and in well-settled texts full of…
- Verse 13.5The great elements, egoism, the understanding, the unperceived also, the ten senses, and the one, and the five objects…
- Verse 13.6The great elements, egoism, the understanding, the unperceived also, the ten senses, and the one, and the five objects…
- Verse 13.7Absence of vanity, absence of ostentatiousness, absence of hurtfulness, forgiveness, straightforwardness, devotion to…
- Verse 13.8Absence of vanity, absence of ostentatiousness, absence of hurtfulness, forgiveness, straightforwardness, devotion to…
- Verse 13.9Absence of vanity, absence of ostentatiousness, absence of hurtfulness, forgiveness, straightforwardness, devotion to…
- Verse 13.10Absence of vanity, absence of ostentatiousness, absence of hurtfulness, forgiveness, straightforwardness, devotion to…
- Verse 13.11Absence of vanity, absence of ostentatiousness, absence of hurtfulness, forgiveness, straightforwardness, devotion to…
- Verse 13.12I will declare that which is the object of knowledge, knowing which, one reaches immortality; the highest Brahman,…
- Verse 13.13It has hands and feet on all sides, it has eyes, heads, and faces on all sides, it has ears on all sides, it stands…
- Verse 13.14Possessed of the qualities of all the senses, (but) devoid of all senses, unattached, it supports all, is devoid of…
- Verse 13.15It is within all things and without them; it is movable and also immovable; it is unknowable through (its) subtlety;…
- Verse 13.16Not different in (different) things, but standing as though different, it should be known to be the supporter of (all)…
- Verse 13.17It is the radiance even of the radiant (bodies); it is said (to be) beyond darkness. It is knowledge, the object of…
- Verse 13.18Thus in brief have Kshetra, knowledge, and the object of knowledge been declared. My devotee, knowing this, becomes…
- Verse 13.19Know nature and spirit both (to be) without beginning, and know all developments and qualities (to be) produced from…
- Verse 13.20Nature is said to be the origin of the capacity of working (residing) in the body and the senses; and spirit is said…
- Verse 13.21For spirit with nature joined, enjoys the qualities born of nature. And the cause of its birth in good or evil wombs…
- Verse 13.22The supreme spirit in this body is called supervisor, adviser, supporter, enjoyer, the great lord, and the supreme…
- Verse 13.23He who thus knows nature and spirit, together with the qualities, is not born again, however living.
- Verse 13.24Some by concentration see the self in the self by the self; others by the Sânkya-yoga; and others still by the…
- Verse 13.25others yet, not knowing this, practise concentration, after hearing from others. They, too, being (thus) devoted to…
- Verse 13.26Whatever thing movable or immovable comes into existence, know that to be from the connexion of Kshetra and…
- Verse 13.27He sees (truly) who sees the supreme lord abiding alike in all entities, and not destroyed though they are destroyed.
- Verse 13.28For he who sees the lord abiding everywhere alike, does not destroy himself by himself, and then reaches the highest…
- Verse 13.29He sees (truly), who sees (all) actions (to be) in every way done by nature alone, and likewise the self (to be) not…
- Verse 13.30When a man sees all the variety of entities as existing in one, and (all as) emanating from that, then he becomes (one…
- Verse 13.31This inexhaustible supreme self, being without beginning and without qualities, does not act, and is not tainted, O…
- Verse 13.32As by (reason of its) subtlety the all-pervading space is not tainted, so the self stationed in every body is not…
- Verse 13.33As the sun singly lights up all this world, so the Kshetragña, O descendant of Bharata! lights up the whole Kshetra.
- Verse 13.34Those who, with the eye of knowledge, thus understand the difference between Kshetra and Kshetragña, and the…