13.4 तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक् च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत्।स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे श्रृणु
tat
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tat—that;kṣhetram—field of activities;yat—what;cha—and;yādṛik—its nature;cha—and;yat-vikāri—how change takes place in it;yataḥ—from what;cha—also;yat—what;saḥ—he;cha—also;yaḥ—who;yat-prabhāvaḥ—what his powers are;cha—and;tat—that;samāsena—in summary;me—from me;śhṛiṇu—listen
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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What is that Field and what is its nature? Why does it undergo modifications, where does it come from, and what is its purpose? Who is the Field-sensitizer and what is His nature? Listen to all this from Me collectively.
What is called Matter, of what it is composed, whence it came, and why it changes, what the Self is, and what Its power - this I will now briefly set forth.
Listen briefly from Me what the Field is, and what it is like, what is modifications are, what purpose it serves, what it is; and who the self is and what Its powers are.
Hear from Me in brief about (all) that as to what that field is and how it is; what its changes are, and from what cause arises what effect; and who He is, and what His powers are.
What the Field is and of what nature, what its modifications are and whence it is, and also who He is and what His powers are–hear all that from Me in brief.
13.6 महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च।इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः
mahā
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mahā-bhūtāni—the (five) great elements;ahankāraḥ—the ego;buddhiḥ—the intellect;avyaktam—the unmanifested primordial matter;eva—indeed;cha—and;indriyāṇi—the senses;daśha-ekam—eleven;cha—and;pañcha—five;cha—and;indriya-go-charāḥ—the (five) objects of the senses
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The five great elements, egotism, the intellect, the unmanifest, and the ten organs and the five objects of the senses.
The five great fundamentals (earth, fire, air, water and ether), personality, intellect, the mysterious life force, the ten organs of perception and action, the mind and the five domains of sensation;
The great elements, the Ahankara, the Buddhi, the Avyakta, the ten senses and the one, besides, the five objects of the senses;
The great elements, egoism, intellect and the Unmanifest itself; the ten organs and the one, and the five objects of the senses;
The great elements, egoism, intellect and also unmanifested Nature, the ten senses and one, and the five objects of the senses,
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क्षेत्र-क्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग
Chapter 13: The Field and the Knower of the Field
kṣetra-kṣetrajñavibhāgayoga
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13.5 ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक्।ब्रह्मसूत्रपदैश्चैव हेतुमद्भिर्विनिश्िचतैः
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Word meanings
ṛiṣhibhiḥ—by great sages;bahudhā—in manifold ways;gītam—sung;chhandobhiḥ—in Vedic hymns;vividhaiḥ—various;pṛithak—variously;brahma-sūtra—the Brahma Sūtra;padaiḥ—by the hymns;cha—and;eva—especially;hetu-madbhiḥ—with logic;viniśhchitaiḥ—conclusive evidence
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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This has been sung many times by sages, and also has been clearly decided in the various Vedas in different contexts by means of their words that are suggestive of the Brahman (i.e. in the Upanishads) and are full of reasoning.
Seers have sung of It in various ways, in many hymns and sacred Vedic songs, weighty in thought and convincing in argument.
It has been sung by seers in various ways, in various distinctive hymns, and also in the well-reasoned and conclusive words of the Brahma-sutras.
It has been sung of in various ways by the Rsis, separately by the different kinds [The different branches of Vedic texts.] of Vedic texts, and also by the rational and convincing sentences themselves which are indicative of and lead of Brahman.
Sages have sung in many ways, in various distinctive chants and also in the suggestive words indicative of the Absolute, full of reasoning and decisive.
