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Chapter 13 · Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness · 35 verses

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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Remember who is speaking. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. Take the verse as He directs.
2Say the verse and its words. Read the Sanskrit, then each word with its meaning.
3Read the translation as it is. Let the translation say what it says, without adding your own meaning.
4Read the purport. Hear the verse through the disciplic succession.
5Bring your own question. Ask: where does this verse meet my life, my trouble, my doubt?
6Act on it, remembering Kṛṣṇa. Carry one instruction into your work today.

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Bhakti & surrenderChapter 13 · Nature, the Enjoyer and Consciousness

13.26 13.28

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 13.27

Routes to realization and devotional hearing

Prakṛti · Material nature

यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम् ।

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञसंयोगात्तद्विद्धि भरतर्षभ ॥ २७ ॥

yāvat sañjāyate kiñcit

sattvaṁ sthāvara-jaṅgamam

kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saṁyogāt

tad viddhi bharatarṣabha

Translation

O chief of the Bhāratas, know that whatever you see in existence, both the moving and the nonmoving, is only a combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io

Understand it

What this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.

3 study points

Nature and the Living Entity

1
Everything moving or nonmoving is a combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field.
2
Prabhupāda explains that these are material nature and the living entity. Without the living entity, nothing can grow.
3
Recognize that the Supreme Lord brings these two natures together and controls them both.

Key points from the purport

Realised person can distinguish between spirit and matter in all circumstances

Whatever one sees in material existence, moving or non-moving is only a combination of the field of activities and the knower of the field

This verse explains that all species are a combination of material nature and living entity (purport)

Combination is effected by the Supreme Lord, controller of both, Superior and inferior energies

Jnana-Chakshu: The Vision Of Knowledge

Those who see the distinction between the body, its owner and the Supersoul, and who recognize the process of liberation, can attain the Supreme goal (13.35)

Chapter 13, section V: Jnana-Chakshu: The Vision Of Knowledge