Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 674

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 13 The Sphere of Action and Its Knower महाभूतान्यहंकारों बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च। इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पंच चेन्द्रियगोचरा:॥5॥ इच्छा द्वेष: सुखं दु:खं संघातश्चेतना धृति:। एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम् ॥6॥ [ “Speaking briefly, mutable physical body is the aggregate of the five elements, ego, intellect, even the unmanifest, the ten sense organs, mind and the five objects of sense, as well as desire, malice, pleasure and pain, and intelligence and fortitude.” ] Summarizing the constitution of the body which is kshetr with all its variants, Krishn tells Arjun that it is made up of the five great elements (earth, water, fire, ether, and air), ego, intellect and thought (which, instead of being named, has been called the unmanifest, metaphysical nature), and thus throws light upon primal nature with its eight parts. Apart from this the other components are the ten senses (eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue, organ of taste, hands, feet, genital organ, and anus), mind, the five objects of sense (form, taste, smell, sound, and touch), desire, malice, pleasure and pain, and consciousness and calm courage. The body, the gross corporal frame, is the composite of all these parts. This in brief is kshetr and the good or bad seeds sown in it sprout as sanskar. Made up of components which have evolved from a previous source or nature (prakriti), the body must exist so long as these components survive. Let us now see the attributes of the kshetragya who is uninvolved in and free from this kshetr: