Sri Bhagavan said: This body, Arjun is termed as the Field (Ksetra) and he who knows it, is called the knower of the Field (Ksetrajns) by the sages discerning the truth about both …. (1)
Know Myself to be the Ksetrajna (individual soul) in all the Ksetras (fields), Arjun. And it is the knowledge of the field (Ksetra) and knower (Ksetrajna) (i.e., of Matter with its evolutes and the Spirit) which I consider as true knowledge. ………….. (2)
What that Field (Ksetra) is and what is its nature, what are its modifications, and from what causes what effects have arisen, and also who its knower (Ksetrajna) is, and what His glory - hear all this form Me in brief. ……………… (3)
The truth about the Ksetra and the Ksetrajna has been expounded by the seers in manifold ways; again, it has been separately stated in different Vedic chants and also in the conclusive and reasoned texts of the Brahma sutras. …………….. (4)
The five elements, the ego, the intellect, the Un-manifest (Primordial Matter), the ten organs of perception and action, the mind, and the five objects of sense (sound, touch, color, taste and smell). ………………… (5)
Also desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the physical body, consciousness, firmness; thus is the Ksetra, with its evolutes, briefly stated. …………… (6)
Absence of pride, freedom from hypocrisy, non-violence, forbearance, uprightness of speech and mind etc., devout service of the preceptor internal and external purity, steadfastness of mind and control of body, mind and the senses: ………….. (7)
Dispassion towards the objects of enjoyment of this world and the next, and also absence of egotism, pondering again and again on the pain and evils inherent in birth, death, old age and disease: ………. (8)
Absence of attachment and the sense of mineness in respect of son, wife, home etc., and constant equipoise of mind both in favorable and unfavorable circumstances: …… (9)
Unflinching devotion to Me through exclusive attachment, living in secluded and holy places, and finding no delight in the company of worldly people. ………………. (10)
Constancy in self-knowledge and seeing God as the object of true knowledge - all this is declared as knowledge and what is contrary to this is called ignorance. …… (11)
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