Chapter 13
क्षेत्र-क्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग
Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
The thirteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita is "Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga". The word "kshetra" means "the field", and the "kshetrajna" means "the knower of the field". We can think of our material body as the field and our immortal soul as the knower of the field. In this chapter, Krishna discriminates between the physical body and the immortal soul. He explains that the physical body is temporary and perishable whereas the soul is permanent and eternal. The physical body can be destroyed but the soul can never be destroyed. The chapter then describes God, who is the Supreme Soul. All the individual souls have originated from the Supreme Soul. One who clearly understands the difference between the body, the Soul and the Supreme Soul attains the realization of Brahman.
अर्जुन उवाच |...
13.1 Arjuna said I wish to learn about Nature (matter) and the Spirit (soul), the field and the kno...
श्रीभगवानुवाच |...
13.2 The Blessed Lord said This body, O Arjuna, is called the field; he who knows it is called the ...
क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत |...
13.3 Do thou also know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both the ...
तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत् |...
13.4 What the field is and of what nature, what are its modifications and whence it is and also who ...
ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् |...
13.5 Sages have sung in many ways, in various distinctive chants and also in the suggestive words in...
महाभूतान्यहंकारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च |...
13.6 The great elements, egoism, intellect, and also the Unmanifested Nature, the ten senses and one...
इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं संघातश्चेतना धृतिः |...
13.7 Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (the body), intelligence, fortitude the field ha...
अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् |...
13.8 Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forgiveness, uprightness, service of the teacher, puri...
इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहंकार एव च |...
13.9 Indifference to the objects of the senses and also absence of egoism; perception of (or reflect...
असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु |...
13.10 Non-attachment, non-identification of the Self with son, wife, home and the rest, and constant...
मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी |...
13.11 Unswerving devotion unto Me by the Yoga of non-separation, resort to solitary places, distaste...
अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् |...
13.12 Constancy in Self-knowledge, perception of the end of true knowledge this is declared to be k...
ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वामृतमश्नुते |...
13.13 I will declare that which has to be known, knowing which one attains to immortality, the begin...
सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम् |...
13.14 With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere, ...
सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् |...
13.15 Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses; unattached, yet supporting...
बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च |...
13.16 Without and within (all) beings the unmoving and also the moving; because of Its subtlety, unk...
अविभक्तं च भूतेषु विभक्तमिव च स्थितम् |...
13.17 And undivided, yet It exists as if divided in beings; It is to be known as the supporter of be...
ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते |...
13.18 That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness: knowledge, the knowable and the ...
इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः |...
13.19 Thus the field, as well as knowledge and the knowable have been briefly stated. My devotee, kn...
प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी उभावपि |...
13.20 Know thou that Nature (matter) and the Spirit are both beginningless; and know also that all m...
कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते |...
13.21 In the production of the effect and the cause, Nature (matter) is said to be the cause; in the...
पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान् |...
13.22 The soul seated in Nature experiences the alities born of Nature; attachment to the alities is...
उपद्रष्टानुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता महेश्वरः |...
13.23 The Supreme Soul in this body is also called the spectator, the permitter, the supporter, the ...
य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणैः सह |...
13.24 He who thus knows the Spirit and Matter together with the alities, in whatever condition he ma...
ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना |...
13.25 Some by meditation behold the Self in the self by the self, others by the Yoga of knowledge, a...
अन्ये त्वेवमजानन्तः श्रुत्वान्येभ्य उपासते |...
13.26 Others also, not knowing thus, worship, having heard of It from others; they, too, cross beyon...
यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम् |...
13.27 Wherever a being is born, whether unmoving or moving, know thou, O best of the Bharatas (Arjun...
समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् |...
13.28 He sees, who sees the Supreme Lord, existing eally in all beings, the unperishing within the p...
समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् |...
13.29 Because he who sees the same Lord eally dwelling everywhere does not destroy the Self by the s...
प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः |...
13.30 He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by Nature alone and that the Self is actionle...
यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति |...
13.31 When a man sees the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and spreading forth from Th...
अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः |...
13.32 Being without beginning and being devoid of (any) alities, the Supreme Self, imperishable, tho...
यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते |...
13.33 As the all-pervading ether is not tainted, because of its subtlety, so the Self seated everywh...
यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः |...
13.34 Just as the one sun illumines the whole world, so also the Lord of the field (Supreme Self) i...
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा |...
13.35 They who, by the eye of knowledge, perceive the distinction between the field and its knower a...