Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 698

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 13 The Sphere of Action and Its Knower This is the field on which the sown seeds, whether good or bad, grow as sanskar. The one who voyages successfully across this sphere is a kshetragya. Possessed of divine moral virtue, he is the one who determines the operations of kshetr. The present chapter is thus mainly devoted to a detailed elaboration of kshetragya. The scope of kshetr is indeed wide and extensive. To speak the word “body” is so easy but what vastness is contained within this simple expression? It is coextensive with the primal nature of the entire universe. It is coextensive with endless space. It is thus the animating principle of life and no being can exist without it. This whole universe, this world, these countries and provinces, and this apparent human body are not even a fraction of that nature. Thus, besides kshetragya, the chapter also dwells at length on kshetr. Thus concludes the Thirteenth Chapter, in the Upanishad of the Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta, on the Knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, the Science of Yog, and the Dialogue between Krishn and Arjun, entitled : “Kshetr-Kshetragya Vibhag Yog’’ or ‘‘The Sphere of Action and its knower.’’ Thus concludes Swami Adgadanand’s exposition of the Thirteenth Chapter of the Shreemad Bhagwad Geeta in “Yatharth Geeta”.