Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Kshetra and kshetrajna

क्षेत्र क्षेत्रज्ञ · kṣetra kṣetrajña

the field and the knower of the field

Chapter 13 calls the body, together with mind and senses, a field: the ground in which actions are sown and their results reaped. The one who is aware of it is the knower of the field. To tell the two apart is what Krishna there calls knowledge. The Gita's first line also speaks of a field, Kurukshetra, the field of dharma.

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Bhagavad Gita 13.1 · Bhagavad Gita 13.2 · Bhagavad Gita 13.26