Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan

Now we are in last section of 13th chapter in BG which is names Nature, Enjoyer and the Consciousness.

 

Chp13 Overview

1: Arjuna’s 6 questions

2-7: Kshetra &  Kshetra-jna (Answer to 3rd and 4th questions)

8-12: Jnana (Answer to 5th question)

13-19: Jneya (Answer to 6th question)

20-26: Prakrti & Purusha (Ansto 1st and 2nd questions)

27-35: Jnana-chakshu – Bonus section where Krishna offers Jyana Chaksu (the eyes of knowledge by which one can see reality beyond how it appears at a material level of perception) 

 

Krishna has answered all the six questions and now He will give the integrated view and explain how all of these fix together

 

Bg 13.27

yāvat sañjāyate kiñcit
sattvaṁ sthāvara-jaṅgamam
kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saṁyogāt
tad viddhi bharatarṣabha

Synonyms: 

yāvat — whatever; sañjāyate — comes into being; kiñcit — anything; sattvam — existence; sthāvara — not moving; jaṅgamam — moving; kṣetra — of the body; kṣetra–jña — and the knower of the body; saṁyogāt — by the union between; tat viddhi — you must know it; bharata–ṛṣabha — O chief of the Bhāratas.

Translation: 

O chief of the Bhāratas, know that whatever you see in existence, both the moving and the nonmoving, is only a combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field.

 

tad viddhi, know this 

so what is that bharatarṣabha, best of Bharatas should know? 

yāvat sañjāyate, whatever exists, sañjāyate is come into being or exists comes into existence, kiñcit is even the smallest of it,

sattvaṁ sthāvara-jaṅgamam

The existence which may be moving or none moving 

kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saṁyogāt

It all comes by the contact of the Kshetra and Kshtera- jna, the contact of the knower of the field and the field itself.

So Krishna is telling that the varieties of this world can be reduced to fundamentals, whatever I see in this world is a combination of Kshetra and Kshetra-jna 

So Jyana Chaksu enables us to see more deeply more seriously more lovingly, ultimately when we see Krishna then we see lovingly but before that we see them more dispassionately, we wanted to become detached from material things and with spiritual things we wanted to become attached. 

So this should bring equal vision. 

Beyond Kshetra and Kshetra-jna there is Supreme Kshetra-jna that will come later.

End of tranacription.