BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:4

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:4

 

tat ksetram yac ca yadrk ca

yad-vikari yatas ca yat

sa ca yo yat-prabhavas ca

tat samasena me srnu

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

tat--that; ksetram--field of activities; yat--what; ca--also;

yadrk--as it is; ca--also; yat--having what; vikari--changes;

yatah--from which; ca--also; yat--what; sah--he; ca--also; yah--who;

yat--having what; prabhavah--influence; ca--also; tat--that;

samasena--in summary; me--from Me; srnu--understand.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how

it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who

that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences

are.

 

PURPORT

 

The Lord is describing the field of activities and the knower of the

field of activities in their constitutional positions. One has to know

how this body is constituted, the materials of which this body is

made, under whose control this body is working, how the changes are

taking place, wherefrom the changes are coming, what the causes are,

what the reasons are, what the ultimate goal of the individual soul

is, and what the actual form of the individual soul is. One should

also know the distinction between the individual living soul and the

Supersoul, their different influences, their potentials, etc. One just

has to understand this Bhagavad-gita directly from the description

given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all this will be

clarified. But one should be careful not to consider the Supreme

Personality of Godhead in every body to be one with the individual

soul, the jiva. This is something like equating the potent and the

impotent.

 

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