Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 – Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga
The discrimination between the field and the knower of the field.
35 verses
All verses of this chapter
- 13.1 – अर्जुन उवाच – Arjuna said: O Keshava, I wish to know about Prakriti and Purusha, the field and the knower of the field…
- 13.2 – श्रीभगवानुवाच – The Blessed Lord said: This body, O son of Kunti, is called the field; and the one who knows it is called…
- 13.3 – क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि – Know Me also to be the knower of the field in all fields, O Bharata.
- 13.4 – तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि – Hear from Me in brief what that field is, what its nature is, what its modifications are, and from what…
- 13.5 – ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् – This truth has been sung by the sages in many ways, separately in various Vedic hymns, and also in the…
- 13.6 – महाभूतान्यहंकारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च – The great elements, the ego, the intellect and the Unmanifest, the ten senses and the one (mind), and the…
- 13.7 – इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं – Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (of body and senses), awareness and fortitude — thus the…
- 13.8 – अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् – Humility, freedom from pretence, non-violence, forbearance, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity…
- 13.9 – इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहंकार एव च – Dispassion toward the objects of the senses, absence of egoism, and constant reflection on the evils of…
- 13.10 – असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु – Non-attachment, freedom from clinging identification with son, wife, home and the like, and constant…
- 13.11 – मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी – And unswerving devotion to Me through the yoga of exclusive dedication; a disposition to resort to solitary…
- 13.12 – अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् – Constancy in knowledge of the Self and a clear vision of the goal of the knowledge of truth — all this is…
- 13.13 – ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वामृतमश्नुते – I shall declare that which is to be known, knowing which one attains immortality: the beginningless supreme…
- 13.14 – सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम् – With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere, That abides in…
- 13.15 – सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् – It shines through the functions of all the senses, yet is free from all senses; unattached, yet sustaining…
- 13.16 – बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च – It is outside and inside all beings; it is the unmoving and also the moving.
- 13.17 – अविभक्तं च भूतेषु विभक्तमिव – Undivided, it yet abides in beings as though divided. That which is to be known is the sustainer of beings…
- 13.18 – ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते – That is the light even of lights and is said to be beyond darkness.
- 13.19 – इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं – Thus the field, knowledge and the object of knowledge have been briefly described.
- 13.20 – प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी – Know that Prakriti (nature) and Purusha (spirit) are both without beginning; and know that all modifications…
- 13.21 – कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते – Prakriti is said to be the cause in producing the body and the instruments and in their activity; the…
- 13.22 – पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते – The Purusha, seated in Prakriti, experiences the gunas born of Prakriti; its attachment to the gunas is the…
- 13.23 – उपद्रष्टानुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता – The Supreme Purusha in this body is also called the witness, the one who permits, the supporter, the…
- 13.24 – य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं – One who thus knows the Purusha, and Prakriti together with its gunas, is not born again, however he may be…
- 13.25 – ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना – Some behold the Self within themselves through meditation, by means of the purified mind; others through the…
- 13.26 – अन्ये त्वेवमजानन्तः श्रुत्वान्येभ्य उपासते – Others, not knowing this by themselves, worship having heard it from others; they too, devoted to what they…
- 13.27 – यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम् – O best of the Bharatas, whatever being comes into existence, whether unmoving or moving, know that it arises…
- 13.28 – समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं – He who sees the Supreme Lord abiding equally in all beings, the imperishable within the perishing, he truly…
- 13.29 – समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् – For one who sees the Lord equally present everywhere does not injure the Self by the self; therefore he…
- 13.30 – प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि – He who sees that all actions are performed in every way by Nature alone, and that the Self is not the doer…
- 13.31 – यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति – When one perceives the separate existence of beings as resting in the One, and sees their whole expansion as…
- 13.32 – अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः – Being beginningless and free from the gunas, this imperishable Supreme Self, O son of Kunti, neither acts…
- 13.33 – यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते – Just as all-pervading space, because of its subtlety, is not tainted by anything, so the Self, present…
- 13.34 – यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं – O Bharata, just as the one sun illumines this whole world, so the Lord of the field illumines the whole field.
- 13.35 – क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा – Those who, with the eye of knowledge, thus know the difference between the field and its knower, and the…