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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -13
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1. This, the body, O son of Kunti, is called ksetra; him, who knows it, they who know of them call Ksetrajña. What is referred to by the pronoun 'this' is specified (by the Lord) as ' the body'. O son of Kunti, this is called, mentioned as, ksetra, the field,-because it is protected ("trāna") from in jury ("ksata"), or because it is destructible (ksaya), or because it is liable to decay (ksaraoa), or because the fruit of action is reaped in it as in a field (ksetra). Him, who knows it, the body, the field (ksetra), from the sole of the foot to the head, through knowledgenatural or taught, as being distinct (from himself),-this knower- they call, mention as, Ksetrajña, the knower of the field. Who arc they (that designate him so)? Those who know of them both, the ksetra and the Ksetrajña. Ksetra and Ksetrajña have thus been defined. Will knowing only this much about them suffice to understand them (fully)? No, says the Lord: |
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