Gita 13.1
अर्जुन उवाच। प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च। एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव॥
arjuna uvāca prakṛtiṁ puruṣaṁ caiva kṣetraṁ kṣetra-jñam eva ca etad veditum icchāmi jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ ca keśava
"Arjuna said: I wish to know about nature and the person, the field and the knower of the field, knowledge and that which is to be known, O Keshava."
All 35 verses of Chapter 13
- 13.1Arjuna said: I wish to know about nature and the person, the field and the knower of the field, knowledge...
- 13.2The Blessed Lord said: This body, O son of Kunti, is called the field; one who knows it is called the...
- 13.3Know Me also as the knower of the field in all fields, O Bharata. The knowledge of field and field-knower...
- 13.4What that field is, what its nature is, what its modifications are, from what causes, and also who that...
- 13.5This has been sung by the sages in many ways, in various Vedic hymns distinctly, and also in the...
- 13.6The great elements, ego, intellect, the unmanifested, the ten senses and one, and the five sense-objects,
- 13.7Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the aggregate, consciousness, and fortitude, this is the field briefly...
- 13.8Humility, unpretentiousness, non-violence, patience, uprightness, service to the teacher, purity...
- 13.9Dispassion toward sense objects, absence of ego, and perception of the evil in birth, death, old age...
- 13.10Non-attachment, non-identification with son, wife, home, and the rest, constant even-mindedness toward...
- 13.11Unswerving devotion to Me through exclusive yoga, resorting to solitary places, distaste for the company...
- 13.12Constancy in self-knowledge, insight into the purpose of true knowledge, this is declared to be knowledge...
- 13.13I shall declare that which is to be known, knowing which one attains immortality, the beginningless...
- 13.14With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads, and faces everywhere, with ears everywhere in the world...
- 13.15Shining through the functions of all senses, yet free from all senses; unattached yet sustaining all...
- 13.16Outside and inside of beings, the unmoving and also the moving; because of Its subtlety, It is...
- 13.17Undivided, yet existing as if divided in beings; That which is to be known is the sustainer of beings, and...
- 13.18That is the Light of lights, said to be beyond darkness; knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the goal...
- 13.19Thus the field, knowledge, and the knowable have been briefly stated. My devotee, understanding this...
- 13.20Know that both nature and spirit are beginningless; know also that the modifications and the qualities are...
- 13.21Nature is said to be the cause of effects, instruments, and agency; the spirit is said to be the cause of...
- 13.22The spirit, seated in nature, experiences the qualities born of nature. Attachment to the qualities is the...
- 13.23The supreme spirit in this body is called the witness, the approver, the supporter, the experiencer, the...
- 13.24One who thus knows the spirit and nature together with the qualities, in whatever condition existing, is...
- 13.25Some perceive the Self in the self by the self through meditation; others through the yoga of knowledge...
- 13.26Others, not knowing thus, worship having heard from others. They too cross beyond death, devoted to what...
- 13.27Whatever being is born, whether stationary or moving, know that to be from the union of the field and the...
- 13.28One who sees the Supreme Lord dwelling equally in all beings, the imperishable within the perishable, that...
- 13.29Seeing the Lord equally present everywhere, one does not destroy the Self by the self, and thus reaches...
- 13.30One who sees that all actions are performed only by nature, and likewise that the Self is not the doer...
- 13.31When one perceives the diverse existence of beings as rooted in One, and their expansion as from That...
- 13.32Because of being beginningless and without qualities, this imperishable Supreme Self, though dwelling in...
- 13.33As the all-pervading space is not tainted because of its subtlety, so the Self, seated everywhere in the...
- 13.34As the one sun illumines this entire world, so does the Lord of the field illumine the entire field, O...
- 13.35Those who thus know through the eye of knowledge the distinction between the field and the knower of the...