BHAGAVAD GITA FOR BUSY PEOPLE

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PRIYA BHAGAVAT BANDUVULLARA!

 

BHAGAVAD GITA FOR BUSY PEOPLE

 

CHAPTER :THIRTEEN

 

THE YOGA OF DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE FIELD

AND KNOWER OF THE FIELD

 

KSHETRA-KSHETRAJNA-VIBHAGA YOGA

 

Arjuna said: " Prakriti (matter) and Purusha (spirit), also the field

(kshetra) and the knower of the field (kshetragna), knowledge and

which ought to be known—these I desire to learn O Kesava " .

 

The Blessed Lord said: " This body, O son of Kunti, is called the

field (kshetra), he who knows it (body) is called (kshetrajna) (the

knower of the field) by the sages (1). Do thou also know me as the

knower of the filed in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both the

field and knower of the field is considered by Me to be the

knowledge. (2).

 

" The great elements, egoism, intellect, and also the unmanifested

(Mula-Prakriti or Avyaktam), the ten senses and the one ( mind ) and

the five objects of the senses, desire, hatred, pleasure and pain,

the aggregate, intelligence, courage – the kshetra has been thus

described briefly with its modifications (5-6).

 

" Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forbearance, uprightness,

service of the teacher, purity, steadfastness, self-control;

indifference to the objects of the senses and also absence of

egoism; perception of evil in birth, death, old age, in sickness and

pain; non-attachment, non-identification of self with son, wife,

home and the like and constant balance of mind in the occurrence of

the desirable and the undesirable, unswerving devotion to Me by

Yoga, without other object, resort to solitary places, distaste for

the society of men, constant application to spiritual knowledge of

Truth—this is declared to be knowledge, and what is opposed to its

ignorance (7-11).

 

" With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths

everywhere, with ears everywhere He exists in the world, enveloping

all (13). Without and within all beings, the immovable and also the

moveable; because of His subtlety incomprehensible; and near and far

away is that (15). That the Light of lights is said to be beyond

darkness, knowledge, the knowable, the goal of knowledge, seated in

the hearts of all. (17)

 

" He sees, who sees, that all actions are performed by Prakriti alone

and that the Self is action less (30). They who by the eye of

wisdom perceive the difference between kshetra (the field) and

kshetrajna (the knower of the field) and liberation of beings from

matter (Prakriti)-they go to the Supreme " (34).