Bhagwad Gita - Post 158

Chapter 13

The Yoga of the Distinction Between the Field and the Knower of the Field

Verse 1

Arjuna Uvaacha:

Prakritim purusham chaiva

Kshetram kshetrajnameva cha;

Etadveditumicchaami jnaanam

Jneyam cha keshava.

Arjuna said:

I wish to learn about Nature (matter) and the Spirit (soul), the Field and the Knower of the Field, knowledge and that which ought to be known.

Verse 2

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

Idam shareeram kaunteya

Kshetramityabhidheeyate;

Etadyo vetti tam praahuh

Kshetrajna iti tadvidah.

The Blessed Lord said:

His body, O Arjuna, is called the Field; he who knows it is called the Knower of the Field by those who know of them, that is, by the sages.

Verse 3

Kshetrajnam chaapi maam

Viddhi sarvakshetreshu bhaarata;

Kshetrakshetrajnayor jnaanam

Yattat jnaanam matam mama.

Do thou also know Me as the Knower of the Field in all fields, O Arjuna! Knowledge of both the Field and the Knower of the Field is considered by Me to be the knowledge.

Verse 4

Tat kshetram yaccha yaadrik

Cha yadvikaari yatashcha yat;

Sa cha yo yatprabhaavashcha

Tatsamaasena me shrinu.

What the Field is and of what nature, what its modifications are and whence it is, and also who He is and what His powers are — hear all that from Me in brief.

Verse 5

Rishibhirbahudhaa geetam

Cchandobhirvividhaih prithak;

Brahmasootrapadaishchaiva

Hetumadbhirvinishchitaih.

Sages have sung in many ways, in various distinctive chants and also in the suggestive words indicative of the Absolute, full of reasoning and decisive.

Verse 6

Mahaabhootaanyahankaaro

Buddhiravyaktameva cha;

Indriyaani dashaikam cha

Pancha chendriyagocharaah.

The great elements, egoism, intellect and also unmanifested Nature, the ten senses and one, and the five objects of the senses.

Verse 7 

Icchaa dweshah sukham duhkham

Sanghaatashchetanaa dhritih;

Etat kshetram samaasena

Savikaaramudaahritam.

Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (the body), fortitude and intelligence — the Field has thus been described briefly with its modifications.

Verse 8

Amaanitwam adambhitwam

Ahimsaa kshaantiraarjavam;

Aachaaryopaasanam shaucham

Sthairyamaatmavinigrahah.

Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forgiveness, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity, steadfastness, self-control.

Verse 9

Indriyaartheshu vairaagyaman

Ahankaara eva cha;

Janmamrityujaraavyaadhi

Duhkhadoshaanu darshanam.

Indifference to the objects of the senses, also absence of egoism, perception of (or reflection on) the evil in birth, death, old age, sickness and pain.

Verse 10

Asaktiranabhishwangah

Putradaaragrihaadishu;

Nityam cha samachittatwam

Ishtaanishtopapattishu.

Non-attachment, non-identification of the Self with son, wife, home and the rest, and constant even-mindedness on the attainment of the desirable and the undesirable.

To be continued.

Love.