Prakriti (Nature/Matter) and Purusha (Spirit), also the Kshetra (Field of the Body) and the knower of the Kshetra, knowledge, and that which ought to be known—these, O Keshava, I desire to learn.
The Blessed Lord said:
1. This body, O son of Kunti, is called Kshetra, and he who knows it is called Kshetrajna by those who know of them, Kshetra and Kshetrajna.
2. Me do you also know, O descendant of Bharata, to be Kshetrajna in all Kshetras. The knowledge of Kshetra and Kshetrajna is considered by Me to be the knowledge.
3. What the Kshetra is, what its properties are, what are its modifications, what effects arise from what causes, and also who He is and what His powers are, that hear from Me in brief.
4. This truth has been sung by Rishis in many ways, in various distinctive chants, in passages indicative of Brahman, full of reasoning, and convincing.
5-6. The great Elements, Egoism, Intellect, as also the Unmanifested (Mulâ Prakriti), the ten senses and the one mind, and the five objects of the senses; desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the, aggregate, intelligence, fortitude—the Kshetra has been thus briefly described with its modifications.
7. Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forbearance, uprightness, service to the teacher, purity, steadiness, self-control;
8. The renunciation of sense-objects, and also absence of egoism; reflection on the evils of birth, death, old age, sickness and pain;
9. Non-attachment, non-identification of self with son, wife, home, and the rest, and constant even-mindedness in the occurrence of the desirable and the un-undesirable;
10. Unswerving devotion to Me by the Yoga of non-separation, resort to sequestered places, distaste for the society of men;
11. Constant application to spiritual knowledge, understanding of the end of true knowledge: this is declared to be knowledge, and what is opposed to it is ignorance.
—Bhagavad Gita, 13:1-11
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