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Chapter XIII35 verses

अथ त्रयोदशोऽध्यायः

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोगः

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

Kṣetra-kṣetrajña-vibhāga-yoga

Know the body and the mind with all their motions as a field, and know the one Lord who is the Knower in every field, seated equally in all, unperishing within the perishing. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in
madbhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ — the lover dear to God, who must now know Soul and Nature
and is led towards
kṣetrajña — the Knower in all fields, the one Lord seen seated equally in every being
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Summary of chapter 13

The Field and its Knower - The distinctions between Pumsha and Prakriti. Soul and Nature. rapidly drawn in this chapter in the terms of the Sankhya Philosophy, are the basis on which the Gita rests its whole idea of the liberated being made one in the conscious law of its existence with the Divine.

Chapter 13 illustration, titled क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोगः
Illustration · Sushanto Nath, Sri Aurobindo Society

Chapter outline

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  1. 13·1–7The Field and the Knower of the Field.
  2. 13·8–12The essentials of Spiritual Knowledge.
  3. 13·13–19The Supreme Knowable.
  4. 13·20–35Purusha and Prakriti, the Vedantic Sankhya and spiritual value of Knowledge.
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Arjuna uvācaअर्जुन उवाच

  1. 13·1प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च । एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव ॥ १ ॥prakṛtiṁ puruṣaṁ caiva kṣetraṁ kṣetrajñameva ca, etadveditumicchāmi jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ ca keśava.Prakriti and Purusha, the Field and the Knower of the Field, Knowledge and the object of Knowledge, these I…

Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 13·2इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते । एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ॥ २ ॥idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetramityabhidhīyate, etadyo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ kṣetrajña iti tadvidaḥ.This body, O son of Kunti, is called the Field; that which takes cognizance of the Field is called the Knower…
  2. 13·3, a key verseक्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत । क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम ॥ ३ ॥kṣetrajñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarvakṣetreṣu bhārata, kṣetrakṣetrajñayorjñānaṁ yattajjñānaṁ mataṁ mama.Understand Me as the Knower of the Field in all Fields, O Bharata…
  3. 13·4तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत् । स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे शृणु ॥ ४ ॥tatkṣetraṁ yacca yādṛkca yadvikāri yataśca yat, sa ca yo yatprabhāvaśca tatsamāsena me śṛṇu.What that Field is and what are its character, nature, source, deformations, and what He is and what His…
  4. 13·5ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् । ब्रह्मसूत्रपदैश्चैव हेतुमद्भिर्विनिश्चितैः ॥ ५ ॥ṛṣibhirbahudhā gītaṁ chandobhirvividhaiḥ pṛthak, brahmasūtrapadaiścaiva hetumadbhirviniścitaiḥ.It has been sung by the Rishis in manifold ways in various inspired verses…
  5. 13·6महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च । इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः ॥ ६ ॥mahābhūtānyahaṅkāro buddhiravyaktameva ca, indriyāṇi daśaikaṁ ca paṅca cendriyagocarāḥ.The indiscriminate unmanifest Energy; the five elemental states of matter…
  6. 13·7इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतना धृतिः । एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम् ॥ ७ ॥icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ saṅghātaścetanā dhṛtiḥ, etatkṣetraṁ samāsena savikāramudāhṛtam.Liking and disliking, pleasure and pain (these are the principal deformations of the Kshetra)…
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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेक्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोगो नाम त्रयोदशोऽध्यायः ॥ १३॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādekṣetrakṣetrajñavibhāgayogo nāma trayodaśo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the thirteenth chapter entitled “The Yoga of the Field and the Knower of the Field”

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