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Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga
The Field & the Knower of the Field
Everything experienceable is the Field; the unchanging awareness that knows it is the Knower. Chapter 13 redefines knowledge as twenty character-qualities and teaches the seeing that liberates: the undying amid the perishing.
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Gita 13.1prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva kṣetraṃ kṣetrajñameva ca | etadveditumicchāmi jñānaṃ jñey…Arjuna said: Nature and Spirit, the Field and the Knower of the Field, knowledge and that which is to be known, these I …Gita 13.2-3idaṃ śarīraṃ kaunteya kṣetramityabhidhīyate | etadyo vetti taṃ prāhuḥ kṣetrajña …The Blessed Lord said: This body, O son of Kunti, is called the Field; one who knows it, the sages declare, is the Knowe…Gita 13.4-5tatkṣetraṃ yacca yādṛkca yadvikāri yataśca yat | sa ca yo yatprabhāvaśca tatsamā…Hear from Me briefly what that Field is, of what nature, what its modifications, whence it arises, and who the Knower is…Gita 13.6-7mahābhūtānyahaṅkāro buddhiravyaktameva ca | indriyāṇi daśaikaṃ ca pañca cendriya…The great elements, the ego, the intellect, the unmanifest, the ten senses and the one mind, and the five sense-objects;…Gita 13.8-12amānitvamadambhitvamahiṃsā kṣāntirārjavam | ācāryopāsanaṃ śaucaṃ sthairyamātmavi…Humility, unpretentiousness, non-violence, forbearance, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity, steadfastness, self…Gita 13.13jñeyaṃ yattatpravakṣyāmi yajjñātvāmṛtamaśnute | anādimatparaṃ brahma na sattannā…I shall declare that which is to be known, knowing which one attains immortality: the beginningless supreme Brahman, sai…Gita 13.14-18sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṃ tatsarvato'kṣiśiromukham | sarvataḥ śrutimalloke sarvamāvṛtya…With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads, and mouths everywhere, with hearing everywhere, That stands, envelopin…Gita 13.19iti kṣetraṃ tathā jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ coktaṃ samāsataḥ | madbhakta etadvijñāya madbhāv…Thus the Field, knowledge, and the Knowable have been briefly declared. My devotee, understanding this, becomes fit for …Gita 13.20-21prakṛtiṃ puruṣaṃ caiva viddhyanādī ubhāvapi | vikārāṃśca guṇāṃścaiva viddhi prak…Know that nature and spirit are both beginningless; know that modifications and gunas are born of nature. Nature is said…Gita 13.22puruṣaḥ prakṛtistho hi bhuṅkte prakṛtijānguṇān | kāraṇaṃ guṇasaṅgo'sya sadasadyo…The spirit seated in nature experiences the gunas born of nature; attachment to the gunas is the cause of its births in …Gita 13.23upadraṣṭānumantā ca bhartā bhoktā maheśvaraḥ | paramātmeti cāpyukto dehe'sminpur…The Supreme Spirit in this body is called the witness, the consenter, the supporter, the experiencer, the great Lord, an…Gita 13.24ya evaṃ vetti puruṣaṃ prakṛtiṃ ca guṇaiḥ saha | sarvathā vartamāno'pi na sa bhūy…One who thus knows the Spirit and nature together with the gunas, in whatever condition such a one exists, that one is n…Gita 13.25-26dhyānenātmani paśyanti kecidātmānamātmanā | anye sāṅkhyena yogena karmayogena cā…Some by meditation behold the Self in the self by the self; others by the yoga of knowledge, and others by the yoga of a…Gita 13.27yāvatsañjāyate kiñcitsattvaṃ sthāvarajaṅgamam | kṣetrakṣetrajñasaṃyogāttadviddhi…Whatever being is born, moving or unmoving, know that to arise from the union of the Field and the Knower of the Field, …Gita 13.28-29samaṃ sarveṣu bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṃ parameśvaram | vinaśyatsvavinaśyantaṃ yaḥ paśya…One who sees the supreme Lord abiding equally in all beings, the Imperishable amid the perishing, truly sees. Seeing the…Gita 13.30prakṛtyaiva ca karmāṇi kriyamāṇāni sarvaśaḥ | yaḥ paśyati tathātmānamakartāraṃ s…One who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone, and likewise that the Self is the non-doer, truly sees.Gita 13.31yadā bhūtapṛthagbhāvamekasthamanupaśyati | tata eva ca vistāraṃ brahma sampadyat…When one perceives the diversity of beings as resting in the One, and spreading forth from That alone, then one becomes …Gita 13.32anāditvānnirguṇatvātparamātmāyamavyayaḥ | śarīrastho'pi kaunteya na karoti na li…Being beginningless and free of gunas, this imperishable supreme Self, though dwelling in the body, O son of Kunti, neit…Gita 13.33-34yathā sarvagataṃ saukṣmyādākāśaṃ nopalipyate | sarvatrāvasthito dehe tathātmā no…As the all-pervading ether is not tainted, because of its subtlety, so the Self seated everywhere in the body is not tai…Gita 13.35kṣetrakṣetrajñayorevamantaraṃ jñānacakṣuṣā | bhūtaprakṛtimokṣaṃ ca ye viduryānti…Those who, with the eye of knowledge, thus perceive the distinction between the Field and the Knower of the Field, and t…
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