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Chapter 13
Kshetra-kshetraaajnyavibhaga Yoga
Even though the Supreme Lord alone is the creator of everything, to show that the privilege of enjoyment has been given to Prakriti to a small extent, the word speaks – ]cyato has been used in two places. The purport is to show that He alone is the Principal Actor. Even then since Prakriti responds more through the instruments of action than in the enjoyment of action, “Prakriti is said to have been the instrument of action”. In fact the instrument of action is Sri Vishnu alone and Prakriti and Jiva even when have been granted the agency for enjoyment and to a little extent, Purusha is clarified to be the object, the (principal) enjoyer. Thus special instrument is indicated. Primarily, however, entire instrumentality is credited to Sri Vishnu alone.
22 - 23. Purusha enjoys the attributes of the Prakriti in Prakriti itself. Attachment to the attributes or the instruments of Action is the cause or his birth in good or evil wombs. The Supreme Person in the body is said to be the Witness, Ordainer, Sustainer, Experiencer, the Great Lord, the Supreme Self.
Bhashya :- To the query यतश्च , the reply is given in this verse as it is the उपदष्टा - the Witness, अनुमन्ता. refers as one who, thinking again and again, ordains.
Tatparya Nirnaya :- Purusha should be understood to mean the Jiva. Earlier also both the Lord and the Jiva have been referred by the word Purusha. Hence the word should be used accordingly in proper context. In this verse, Purusha enjoys the attributes of Prakriti is in order to refute the arguments of those who aver that the relationship of the body and its organs of sense with the actions or instrument of action is illusory. It is nowhere observed that the internal experiences of the knowledge and noknowledge, pleasure and pain are the products of delusion. Their illusory sense is never accepted. Only those concerned with the external contacts of the body may appear to be illusory, but not those concerned with internal experiences. The external experiences should be considered as illusory only when there enough weighty evidences are available. “
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