The field and its knower

Abstract

Chapter XIII of the Bhagavad Gita is one of the most instructive tracts of this sacred text. In response to Arjuna’s question asking him about His primordial nature as Prakriti and His conscious principle as Purusha, Sri Krishna instructs Arjuna on on the distinction between the field or the body (kshetra) and the knower of the field (kshetrajna). He who experiences this truth is self-realised. Purusha is pure consciousness, while prakriti is matter or nature: the entire universe is a manifestation of prakriti. What is the field? It includes the five elements comprising water, fire, air, wind and space, the ego, mind, intelligence, the five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing, the mouth, hands, feet and the organs of procreation and excretion, the five objects of the senses, including smell, taste, form, touch and sound, desire, hatred, pain and pleasure, the organism, sentience and sustenance; all these entities expand into thirty-one constituents; these are collectively referred to as the field.

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