Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 13: The Yoga of the Distinction between the Field and the Knower of the Field

All 34 verses of Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, with English translation, per-word meanings, and Adi Shankara's commentary.

• Verse 13.1 — This, the body, O son of Kuntī, is called Kṣetra; him who knows it, they who know of them…
• Verse 13.2 — And do thou also know Me as Kṣetrajña in all Kṣetras, O Bhārata. The knowledge of Kṣetra…
• Verse 13.3 — And what that Kṣetra is, and of what nature, and what its changes; and whence is what…
• Verse 13.4 — Sung by sages, in many ways and distinctly, in various hymns, as also in the suggestive…
• Verse 13.5 — The Great Elements, Egoism, Reason, as also the Unmanifested, the ten senses and one, and…
• Verse 13.6 — Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate, intelligence, courage — the Kṣetra has…
• Verse 13.7 — Humility, modesty, innocence, patience, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity…
• Verse 13.8 — Absence of attachment for objects of the senses, and also absence of egoism; perception…
• Verse 13.9 — Unattachment, absence of affection for son, wife, home and the like, and constant…
• Verse 13.10 — Unflinching devotion to Me in Yoga of non-separation, resort to solitary places, distaste…
• Verse 13.11 — Constancy in Self-knowledge, perception of the end of the knowledge of truth. This is…
• Verse 13.12 — That which has to be known I shall describe; knowing which one attains the Immortal…
• Verse 13.13 — With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes and heads and mouths everywhere, with hearing…
• Verse 13.14 — Shining by the functions of all the senses, (yet) without the senses, unattached, yet…
• Verse 13.15 — Without and within (all) beings; the unmoving as also the moving. Because subtle, That is…
• Verse 13.16 — And undivided, yet remaining divided as it were in beings; supporter of beings, too, is…
• Verse 13.17 — The Light even of lights, That is said to be beyond darkness. Knowledge, the Knowable…
• Verse 13.18 — Thus the Kṣetra, as well as knowledge and the Knowable, have been briefly set forth. My…
• Verse 13.19 — Know thou that Prakṛti as well as Puruṣa are both beginningless; and know thou also that…
• Verse 13.20 — As the producer of the effect and the instruments, Prakṛti is said to be the cause; as…
• Verse 13.21 — Puruṣa, when seated in Prakṛti, experiences the qualities born of Prakṛti. Attachment to…
• Verse 13.22 — Spectator and Permitter, Supporter, Enjoyer, the Great Lord, and also spoken of as the…
• Verse 13.23 — He who thus knows Puruṣa and Prakṛti together with qualities, whatever his conduct, he is…
• Verse 13.24 — By meditation some behold the Self in the self by the self, others by Sāṅkhya-Yoga, and…
• Verse 13.25 — Yet others, not knowing thus, worship, having heard from others; they, too, cross beyond…
• Verse 13.26 — Whatever being is born, the unmoving or the moving, know thou, O best of the Bhāratas…
• Verse 13.27 — He sees, who sees the Supreme Lord, remaining the same in all beings, the undying in the…
• Verse 13.28 — Because he who sees the Lord, seated the same everywhere, destroys not the self by the…
• Verse 13.29 — He sees, who sees all actions performed by Prakṛti alone and the Self not acting.
• Verse 13.30 — When a man realises the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and as an…
• Verse 13.31 — Having no beginning, having no qualities, this Supreme Self, imperishable, though…
• Verse 13.32 — As the all-pervading ākāśa is, from its subtlety, never soiled, so the Self seated in the…
• Verse 13.33 — As the one sun illumines all this world, so does the embodied One, O Bhārata, illumine…
• Verse 13.34 — They who by the eye of wisdom perceive the distinction between Kṣetra and Kṣetrajña, and…