अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said I wish to learn about Nature (matter) and the Spirit (soul), the field and th…
13.2श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said This body, O Arjuna, is called the field; he who knows it is called…
13.3क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत |
Do thou also know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both…
13.4तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत् |
What the field is and of what nature, what are its modifications and whence it is and also…
13.5ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् |
Sages have sung in many ways, in various distinctive chants and also in the suggestive wor…
13.6महाभूतान्यहंकारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च |
The great elements, egoism, intellect, and also the Unmanifested Nature, the ten senses an…
13.7इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं संघातश्चेतना धृतिः |
Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (the body), intelligence, fortitude the fie…
13.8अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् |
Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forgiveness, uprightness, service of the teacher,…
13.9इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहंकार एव च |
Indifference to the objects of the senses and also absence of egoism; perception of (or re…
13.10असक्तिरनभिष्वङ्गः पुत्रदारगृहादिषु |
Non-attachment, non-identification of the Self with son, wife, home and the rest, and cons…
13.11मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिरव्यभिचारिणी |
Unswerving devotion unto Me by the Yoga of non-separation, resort to solitary places, dist…
13.12अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वं तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम् |
Constancy in Self-knowledge, perception of the end of true knowledge this is declared to …
13.13ज्ञेयं यत्तत्प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वामृतमश्नुते |
I will declare that which has to be known, knowing which one attains to immortality, the b…
13.14सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम् |
With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhe…
13.15सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम् |
Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses; unattached, yet suppor…
13.16बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च |
Without and within (all) beings the unmoving and also the moving; because of Its subtlety,…
13.17अविभक्तं च भूतेषु विभक्तमिव च स्थितम् |
And undivided, yet It exists as if divided in beings; It is to be known as the supporter o…
13.18ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमसः परमुच्यते |
That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness: knowledge, the knowable and …
13.19इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः |
Thus the field, as well as knowledge and the knowable have been briefly stated. My devotee…
13.20प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी उभावपि |
Know thou that Nature (matter) and the Spirit are both beginningless; and know also that a…
13.21कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते |
In the production of the effect and the cause, Nature (matter) is said to be the cause; in…
13.22पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान् |
The soul seated in Nature experiences the alities born of Nature; attachment to the alitie…
13.23उपद्रष्टानुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता महेश्वरः |
The Supreme Soul in this body is also called the spectator, the permitter, the supporter, …
13.24य एवं वेत्ति पुरुषं प्रकृतिं च गुणैः सह |
He who thus knows the Spirit and Matter together with the alities, in whatever condition h…
13.25ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना |
Some by meditation behold the Self in the self by the self, others by the Yoga of knowledg…
13.26अन्ये त्वेवमजानन्तः श्रुत्वान्येभ्य उपासते |
Others also, not knowing thus, worship, having heard of It from others; they, too, cross b…
13.27यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम् |
Wherever a being is born, whether unmoving or moving, know thou, O best of the Bharatas (A…
13.28समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् |
He sees, who sees the Supreme Lord, existing eally in all beings, the unperishing within t…
13.29समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् |
Because he who sees the same Lord eally dwelling everywhere does not destroy the Self by t…
13.30प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः |
He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by Nature alone and that the Self is acti…
13.31यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति |
When a man sees the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and spreading forth fro…
13.32अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः |
Being without beginning and being devoid of (any) alities, the Supreme Self, imperishable,…
13.33यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते |
As the all-pervading ether is not tainted, because of its subtlety, so the Self seated eve…
13.34यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः |
Just as the one sun illumines the whole world, so also the Lord of the field (Supreme Self…