Shloka: BG 13.1
Arjuna said, "I wish to learn about Nature and the Spirit, the field and the knower of the field, knowledge and that whi...
Shloka: BG 13.2
The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, this body is called the field; he who knows it is called the knower of the field by th...
Shloka: BG 13.3
Do thou also know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both the field and the knower of t...
Shloka: BG 13.4
Hear from Me in brief what the field is, of what nature it is, what its modifications are, whence it is, who He is, and ...
Shloka: BG 13.5
Sages have sung in many ways, with various distinctive chants and also with suggestive words indicative of the Absolute,...
Shloka: BG 13.6
The great elements, egoism, intellect, and also the Unmanifested Nature, the ten senses, and one mind, and the five obje...
Shloka: BG 13.7
Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (body), intelligence, and fortitude—the field has thus been briefly descri...
Shloka: BG 13.8
Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forgiveness, uprightness, service to the teacher, purity, steadfastness, and se...
Shloka: BG 13.9
Indifference to the objects of the senses and also absence of egoism; perceiving the evil in birth, death, old age, sick...
Shloka: BG 13.10
Non-attachment, non-identification of the Self with son, wife, home, and the rest, and constant even-mindedness in the f...
Shloka: BG 13.11
Unswerving devotion to Me through the Yoga of non-separation, resorting to solitary places, and a distaste for the compa...
Shloka: BG 13.12
Constancy in Self-knowledge, the perception of the end of true knowledge—this is declared to be knowledge, and what is o...
Shloka: BG 13.13
I will declare that which is to be known, knowing which one attains immortality; the beginningless Supreme Brahman, whic...
Shloka: BG 13.14
With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads, and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere, He exists in the worlds, ...
Shloka: BG 13.15
Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without being attached to them; unattached, yet supporting all; devoid o...
Shloka: BG 13.16
It is within and without all beings, both the unmoving and the moving; It is subtle and unknowable, and It is near and f...
Shloka: BG 13.17
Undivided yet, It exists as if divided in beings; It is to be known as the supporter of beings; It devours and It genera...
Shloka: BG 13.18
That Light of all lights is said to be beyond darkness: knowledge, the knowable, and the goal of knowledge, seated in th...
Shloka: BG 13.19
Thus, the field, as well as knowledge and the knowable, have been briefly stated. My devotee, knowing this, enters into ...
Shloka: BG 13.20
Know that Nature (matter) and the Spirit are both beginningless, and know also that all modifications and qualities are ...
Shloka: BG 13.21
In the production of the effect and the cause, Nature (matter) is said to be the cause; in the experience of pleasure an...
Shloka: BG 13.22
The soul seated in Nature experiences the qualities born of Nature; attachment to the qualities is the cause of its birt...
Shloka: BG 13.23
The Supreme Soul in this body is also called the observer, the permitter, the sustainer, the enjoyer, the great Lord, an...
Shloka: BG 13.24
He who thus knows the Spirit and Matter together with their qualities, in whatever condition he may be, he is not reborn...
Shloka: BG 13.25
Some behold the Self within themselves through meditation, others through the Yoga of knowledge, and still others throug...
Shloka: BG 13.26
Others, too, who do not know thus, worship, having heard of It from others; they, too, cross beyond death, regarding wha...
Shloka: BG 13.27
Wherever a being is born, whether unmoving or moving, know thou, O best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), that it is from the un...
Shloka: BG 13.28
He who sees the Supreme Lord existing truly in all beings, the imperishable within the perishable, sees indeed.
Shloka: BG 13.29
For he who truly sees the same Lord dwelling everywhere does not destroy the Self by the self; rather, he attains the hi...
Shloka: BG 13.30
He sees, who sees that all actions are performed solely by Nature and that the Self is without action.
Shloka: BG 13.31
When a person sees all beings as resting in the One and emanating from the One alone, they then become Brahman.
Shloka: BG 13.32
Being without beginning, devoid of any qualities, the Supreme Self, imperishable, though dwelling in the body, O Arjuna,...
Shloka: BG 13.33
As the all-pervading ether is not tainted, due to its subtlety, so the Self seated everywhere in the body is not tainted...
Shloka: BG 13.34
Just as the one sun illuminates the entire world, so too does the Lord of the field (Supreme Self) illuminate the entire...
Shloka: BG 13.35