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क्षेत्र-क्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग
Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
The body is described as the field, and awareness as the knower of the field. Krishna distinguishes matter, consciousness, knowledge, and the presence that knows experience.
Chapter 13 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
35 verses
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BG 13.1
अर्जुन उवाच | प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च | एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव ||१३-१||
Arjuna asked: Keshava, I wish to understand nature and the conscious person, the field and its knower, knowledge and what is to be known.
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BG 13.2
श्रीभगवानुवाच | इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते | एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ||१३-२||
The Lord said: This body is called the field, Kunti's son. Those who understand call the one who knows it the knower of the field.
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BG 13.3
क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत | क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम ||१३-३||
Know me also as the knower in every field, Bharata. I regard knowledge of the field and its knower as knowledge.
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BG 13.4
तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत् | स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे शृणु ||१३-४||
Hear briefly from me what that field is, what it is like, how it changes and arises, and who its knower is and what powers the knower has.
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BG 13.5
ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् | ब्रह्मसूत्रपदैश्चैव हेतुमद्भिर्विनिश्चितैः ||१३-५||
Sages have sung of it in many ways, separately in various sacred verses and in reasoned, decisive statements concerning Brahman.
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BG 13.6
महाभूतान्यहंकारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च | इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः ||१३-६||
The great elements, the sense of 'I,' understanding, the unmanifest, the ten senses and the mind, and the five objects of the senses—
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BG 13.7
इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं संघातश्चेतना धृतिः | एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम् ||१३-७||
Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the bodily aggregate, consciousness, and firmness: this briefly describes the field together with its changes.
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BG 13.8
अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् | आचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः ||१३-८||
Humility, absence of pretension, nonviolence, patience, straightforwardness, service to the teacher, purity, steadiness, and self-restraint—
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BG 13.9
इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहंकार एव च | जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम् ||१३-९||
Detachment from sense objects, freedom from the sense of 'I,' and recognition of the suffering and defects in birth, death, old age, and illness—
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BG 13.10
असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु | नित्यं च समचित्तत्वमिष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु ||१३-१०||
Nonattachment, absence of clinging to children, spouse, home, and the like, and constant evenness when wanted or unwanted things occur—
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BG 13.11
मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी | विविक्तदेशसेवित्वमरतिर्जनसंसदि ||१३-११||
Unwavering devotion to me through undivided yoga, preference for secluded places, and lack of delight in crowds—
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BG 13.12
अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् | एतज्ज्ञानमिति प्रोक्तमज्ञानं यदतोऽन्यथा ||१३-१२||
Constancy in knowledge of the self and insight into the purpose of knowledge of reality: this is called knowledge; what differs from it is ignorance.
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BG 13.13
ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वामृतमश्नुते | अनादिमत्परं ब्रह्म न सत्तन्नासदुच्यते ||१३-१३||
I will explain what is to be known, knowing which one tastes immortality: beginningless, supreme Brahman, said to be neither being nor nonbeing.
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BG 13.14
सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम् | सर्वतः श्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति ||१३-१४||
With hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads, and mouths everywhere, and ears everywhere, it stands pervading everything in the world.
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BG 13.15
सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् | असक्तं सर्वभृच्चैव निर्गुणं गुणभोक्तृ च ||१३-१५||
It shines through the functions of all senses, yet is without senses; unattached, it supports everything; without qualities, it nevertheless experiences qualities.
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BG 13.16
बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च | सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ||१३-१६||
It is outside and inside beings, moving and unmoving. Because it is subtle, it cannot be comprehended; it is far away and also near.
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BG 13.17
अविभक्तं च भूतेषु विभक्तमिव च स्थितम् | भूतभर्तृ च तज्ज्ञेयं ग्रसिष्णु प्रभविष्णु च ||१३-१७||
Undivided, it appears divided among beings. It is to be known as their sustainer, their absorber, and their source.
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BG 13.18
ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते | ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य विष्ठितम् ||१३-१८||
It is the light even of lights and is said to be beyond darkness. It is knowledge, what is to be known, and the goal of knowledge, present in everyone's heart.
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BG 13.19
इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः | मद्भक्त एतद्विज्ञाय मद्भावायोपपद्यते ||१३-१९||
Thus the field, knowledge, and what is to be known have been briefly described. Understanding this, my devotee becomes fit to attain my state of being.
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BG 13.20
प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी उभावपि | विकारांश्च गुणांश्चैव विद्धि प्रकृतिसम्भवान् ||१३-२०||
Know nature and the conscious person both to be beginningless. Know changes and qualities to arise from nature.
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BG 13.21
कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते | पुरुषः सुखदुःखानां भोक्तृत्वे हेतुरुच्यते ||१३-२१||
Nature is said to be the cause in the production of the body and its instruments. The conscious person is said to be the cause in experiencing pleasure and pain.
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BG 13.22
पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान् | कारणं गुणसङ्गोऽस्य सदसद्योनिजन्मसु ||१३-२२||
The conscious person, situated in nature, experiences qualities born of nature. Attachment to those qualities causes birth in favorable and unfavorable wombs.
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BG 13.23
उपद्रष्टानुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता महेश्वरः | परमात्मेति चाप्युक्तो देहेऽस्मिन्पुरुषः परः ||१३-२३||
The higher person in this body is called the witness, permitter, sustainer, experiencer, great lord, and supreme self.
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BG 13.24
य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणैः सह | सर्वथा वर्तमानोऽपि न स भूयोऽभिजायते ||१३-२४||
One who knows the conscious person and nature together with its qualities in this way is not born again, whatever their manner of living.
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BG 13.25
ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना | अन्ये साङ्ख्येन योगेन कर्मयोगेन चापरे ||१३-२५||
Some see the self in the self through meditation by the self; others through the yoga of discernment, and others through disciplined action.
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BG 13.26
अन्ये त्वेवमजानन्तः श्रुत्वान्येभ्य उपासते | तेऽपि चातितरन्त्येव मृत्युं श्रुतिपरायणाः ||१३-२६||
Others, not knowing in this way, worship after hearing from others. They too cross beyond death, devoted to what they have heard.
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BG 13.27
यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम् | क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञसंयोगात्तद्विद्धि भरतर्षभ ||१३-२७||
Whatever being comes into existence, moving or unmoving, know it to arise from the union of the field and its knower, best of the Bharatas.
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BG 13.28
समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् | विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति ||१३-२८||
One who sees the supreme lord equally present in all beings, not perishing when they perish, truly sees.
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BG 13.29
समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् | न हिनस्त्यात्मनात्मानं ततो याति परां गतिम् ||१३-२९||
Seeing the lord equally present everywhere, one does not injure the self through the self, and so reaches the highest destination.
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BG 13.30
प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः | यः पश्यति तथात्मानमकर्तारं स पश्यति ||१३-३०||
One who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone and that the self is not the agent truly sees.
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BG 13.31
यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति | तत एव च विस्तारं ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा ||१३-३१||
When one sees the separate existence of beings resting in one, and their expansion from that one alone, one attains Brahman.
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BG 13.32
अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः | शरीरस्थोऽपि कौन्तेय न करोति न लिप्यते ||१३-३२||
Because this supreme self is beginningless and without qualities, it does not decay. Though present in the body, Kunti's son, it neither acts nor is stained.
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BG 13.33
यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते | सर्वत्रावस्थितो देहे तथात्मा नोपलिप्यते ||१३-३३||
As all-pervading space is not stained because of its subtlety, so the self, present throughout the body, is not stained.
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BG 13.34
यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः | क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत ||१३-३४||
As one sun illuminates this entire world, so the knower of the field illuminates the whole field, Bharata.
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BG 13.35
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा | भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम् ||१३-३५||
Those who see with the eye of knowledge the distinction between the field and its knower, and the liberation of beings from nature, reach the highest.