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Chapter 13
Link:—In the preceding verse, the Lord declared that those strivers who worship after hearing from others too, go beyond death. Now a question arises, what causes death? The Lord answers the question.
yavatsaiijayate kincitsattvaih sthavarajarlgamam
ksetraksetrajfiasarisyogattadviddhi bharatarsabha
Whatever being is born, moving or unmoving, 0 best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), know it all as emanated from the union of the field (ksetra) and knower of the field (ksetrajna). 26
Comment:-
Yavatsanjayate kincitsattvam st(sthavarajaugamam ksetraksetrajnasariryogattadviddhi bharatarsabha:-The unmoving creation, such as trees, plants, creepers, grass and mountains etc., and moving beings, such as human beings, gods, beasts, birds, insects and fishes etc., (living on the earth, in the water and the sky)—all are born, of the union of Ksetra (field), and Ksetrajna (knower of the field).
All the perishable objects, which appear and disappear, are included in 'Ksetra', which the knower of this Ksetra, ever remaining the same, is Ksetrajna. Affinity of the Ksetrajna (Spirit), with Ksetra (body), in the form of Tess and 'Mine'ness, is the union of the spirit and the body. It is because of this assumed union, that the spirit has to be born, as moving and unmoving beings. This union has been called, 'attachment to the modes of nature', in the twenty-first verse. It means, that the eternal spirit by identifying itself with the kaleidoscopic prakrti and its evolutes, body etc., assumes itself as perishable.
[The birth of moving, as well as, unmoving beings, has been denoted by the term 'Sanjayate' (Is born) and the death will be denoted by the term 'Vinasyatsu' (perishing), in the next verse.]
Tadviddhi bharatargabha:- Lord Krsna, exhorts Arjuna to know the fact that the contact (identification) of the spirit with the body, is responsible for its rebirth. So, if it does not assume its identification, with the body, it will not be reborn.
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