13.33 यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते।सर्वत्रावस्थितो देहे तथाऽऽत्मा नोपलिप्यते
yathā sarvagataṃ saukṣmyād
Word meanings
yathā—as;sarva-gatam—all-pervading;saukṣhmyāt—due to subtlety;ākāśham—the space;na—not;upalipyate—is contaminated;sarvatra—everywhere;avasthitaḥ—situated;dehe—the body;tathā—similarly;ātmā—the soul;na—not;upalipyate—is contaminated
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Just as the all-pervasive Ether is not stained due to its subtlety, in the same way the Self, abiding in the body everywhere, is not stained.
As space, though present everywhere, remains by reason of its subtlety unaffected, so the Self, though present in all forms, retains its purity unalloyed.
As the all-pervading ether is not tainted because of its subtlety, even so, the self abiding in the body everywhere, is not tainted.
As the all-pervading space is not defiled, because of its subtlety, similarly the Self, present everywhere in the body [The singular number is used to denote a class, i.e. all bodies. See S.-Tr.], is not defiled.
As the all-pervading ether is not tainted because of its subtlety, so the Self seated everywhere in the body, is not tainted.
13.35 क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा।भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम्
kṣetra
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kṣhetra—the body;kṣhetra-jñayoḥ—of the knower of the body;evam—thus;antaram—the difference;jñāna-chakṣhuṣhā—with the eyes of knowledge;bhūta—the living entity;prakṛiti-mokṣham—release from material nature;cha—and;ye—who;viduḥ—know;yānti—approach;te—they;param—the Supreme
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Those who thus understand, with the knowledge-eye, the inner Soul of the Field and the Field-sensitizer, as well as the deliverance from the Material Cause of the elements—they attain the Supreme.
Those who with the eyes of wisdom thus see the difference between Matter and Spirit, and know how to liberate Life from the Law of Nature, they attain the Supreme."
Those who thus discern with the eye of knowledge the difference between the body or the Field (Ksetra) and the knower of the body or Field-knower (Ksetrajna), and the means of deliverance from the manifested Prakrti - they attain the Supreme.
Those who know thus through the eye of wisdom the distinction between the field and the Knower of the field, and the annihilation of the Matrix of beings,-they reach the Supreme.
They who, through the eye of knowledge, perceive the distinction between the Field and its Knower, and also the liberation from the Nature of being, they go to the Supreme.
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क्षेत्र-क्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग
Chapter 13: The Field and the Knower of the Field
kṣetra-kṣetrajñavibhāgayoga
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13.34 यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत
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Word meanings
yathā—as;prakāśhayati—illumines;ekaḥ—one;kṛitsnam—entire;lokam—solar system;imam—this;raviḥ—sun;kṣhetram—the body;kṣhetrī—the soul;tathā—so;kṛitsnam—entire;prakāśhayati—illumine;bhārata—Arjun, the son of Bharat
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Just as a single sun illuminates this entire world, so too does the Lord of the Field illuminate the entire Field, O descendant of Bharata!
As the one Sun illuminates the whole earth, so the Lord illumines the whole universe.
As the one sun illumines this whole world, so does the Knower of the Field (Ksetrin, the self), O Arjuna, illumine the whole Field (the body).
As the single sun illumines this whole world, similarly, O descendant of the Bharata dynasty, the Knower of the field illumines the whole field.
Just as the one sun illumines the whole world, so also the Lord of the Field (the Supreme Self) illumines the whole Field, O Arjuna!
