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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
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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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The verses

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 13·13ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वाऽमृतमश्नुते । अनादिमत्परं ब्रह्म न सत्तन्नासदुच्यते ॥ १३ ॥jñeyaṁ yattatpravakṣyāmi yajjñātvā’mṛtamaśnute, anādimatparaṁ brahma na sattannāsaducyate.I will declare the one object to which the mind of spiritual knowledge must be turned, by fixity in which the…
  2. 13·14, a key verseसर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम् । सर्वतः श्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति ॥ १४ ॥sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṁ tatsarvato’kṣiśiromukham, sarvataḥ śrutimalloke sarvamāvṛtya tiṣṭhati.His hands and feet are on every side of us, his heads and eyes and faces are those innumerable visages which…
  3. 13·15सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् । असक्तं सर्वभृच्चैव निर्गुणं गुणभोक्तृ च ॥ १५ ॥sarvendriyaguṇābhāsaṁ sarvendriyavivarjitam, asaktaṁ sarvabhṛccaiva nirguṇaṁ guṇabhoktṛ ca.All the senses and their qualities reflect him but he is without any senses…
  4. 13·16बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च । सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ॥ १६ ॥bahirantaśca bhūtānāmacaraṁ carameva ca, sūkṣmatvāttadavijñeyaṁ dūrasthaṁ cāntike ca tat.That which is in us is he and all that we experience outside ourselves is he.
  5. 13·17अविभक्तं च भूतेषु विभक्तमिव च स्थितम् । भूतभर्तृ च तज्ज्ञेयं ग्रसिष्णु प्रभविष्णु च ॥ १७ ॥avibhaktaṁ ca bhūteṣu vibhaktamiva ca sthitam, bhūtabhartṛ ca tajjñeyaṁ grasiṣṇu prabhaviṣṇu ca.He is indivisible and the One, but seems to divide himself in forms and creatures and appears as all the…
  6. 13·18, a key verseज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते । ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य विष्ठितम् ॥ १८ ॥jyotiṣāmapi tajjyotistamasaḥ paramucyate, jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñānagamyaṁ hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam.He is the light of all lights and luminous beyond all the darkness of our ignorance.
  7. 13·19इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः । मद्भक्त एतद्विज्ञाय मद्भावायोपपद्यते ॥ १९ ॥iti kṣetraṁ tathā jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ coktaṁ samāsataḥ, madbhakta etadvijñāya madbhāvāyopapadyate.Thus the Field, Knowledge and the Object of Knowledge, have been briefly told.
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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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