13.34 यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत
yathā prakāśayaty
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!
14.1 परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्।यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः
paraṃ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṃ jñānam
Word meanings
param—supreme;bhūyaḥ—again;pravakṣhyāmi—I shall explain;jñānānām—of all knowledge;jñānam uttamam—the supreme wisdom;yat—which;jñātvā—knowing;munayaḥ—saints;sarve—all;parām—highest;siddhim—perfection;itaḥ—through this;gatāḥ—attained
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The Bhagavat said: Further, once again I shall explain the supreme knowledge, the best among knowledges, by knowing which all the seers have gone from here to the Supreme Success.
"Lord Shri Krishna continued: Now I will reveal unto the Wisdom which is beyond knowledge, by attaining which the sages have reached Perfection.
The Lord said I shall declare again another kind of knowledge: It is the best of all forms of knowledge, by knowing which all the sages have attained the state of perfection beyond this world.
The Blessed Lord said I shall speak again of the supreme Knowledge, the best of all knowledges, by realizing which all the contemplatives reached the highest Perfection from here.
I will again declare (to thee) that supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, having known which all the sages have gone to the supreme perfection after this life.
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क्षेत्र-क्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग
Chapter 13: The Field and the Knower of the Field
kṣetra-kṣetrajñavibhāgayoga
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13.35 क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा।भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम्
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Word meanings
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.
