Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 13, Verse 6

इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतना धृतिः । एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम्

icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ saṅghātaścetanā dhṛtiḥ | etatkṣetraṃ samāsena savikāramudāhṛtam

Translation

Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate, intelligence, courage — the Kṣetra has been thus briefly described with its modifications.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

icchā

desire

dveṣaḥ

hate

sukham

pleasure

duḥkham

pain

saṃghātaḥ

aggregation

cetanā

intelligence

dhṛtiḥ

firmness

etat

this

kṣetram

field

samāsena

with brevity

savikāram

with modification

udāhṛtam

is said

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

The Lord proceeds to teach that even those which the Vaiśeṣikas speak of as the inherent attributes of Ātman are merely the attributes of Kṣetra, not of Kṣetrajña. Desire (icchā) is that which impels a person who has once experienced a certain object of pleasure to seek — on again perceiving an object of the same class — to get hold of this latter as conducive to pleasure. It is a property of the inner sense (antaḥ-karaṇa); and it is Kṣetra (matter) because it is knowable. So also hatred. Pleasure is the agreeable, the tranquil, made up of the Sattva principle; even this is Kṣetra, because it is knowable. Pain is the disagreeable; it is Kṣetra because it is knowable. The aggregate is the combination of the body and the senses. Intelligence is a mental state which manifests itself in the aggregate, pervaded by the semblance of the consciousness of the Self. Courage is that by which the body and the senses are upheld when they get depressed. Desire and other qualities mentioned here stand for all the qualities of the inner sense.