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Chapter 13
Appendix: - When the Self has affinity with ksetra, evils such as desire, aversion; pleasure, pain etc., arise in ksetrajna - 'purusah sukhadubkhanam bhoktrtve heturucyate' (13/20). All evils such as desire and aversion etc., abide in the ego (knot between the sentient and the insentient). In ego also these evils abide in the insentient fragment only.
Here the Lord has called the body consisting of twenty-four elements and its seven modifications as 'etat' (this) - 'etatksetram'. It means that the Self is not identified with ksetra but is totally different. The three bodies - gross, subtle and causal being within the term 'etat' are not the Self. Here a point needs special attention that when even 'mahattattva' (cosmic intelligence) and 'mala prakrti' (Primordial Matter) have been mentioned as 'etat', then 'ego' is certainly included in 'etat', there is no doubt about it. Nearer than 'ego' to the self is 'Cosmic intelligence' and nearer than 'Cosmic intelligence' is 'Prakrti', that Prakrti is also included in 'etatksetram'. It means that 'ego' is not 'the Self' at all. The man, who discerns the Self and ego (ksetra) as separate entities, is not born again and he realizes God (Gita 13/23).
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