THE HOLY GITA

Saturday 27 July 2019

THE HOLY GITA CHAPTER 13 VERSE 34 THE CONCLUDING VERSE OF THE CHAPTER

THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER NUMBER 13
VERSE NUMBER 34
KSHETRA KSHETRAJNA VIBHAGA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE DISCRIMINATION OF THE KSHETRA AND THE KSHETRAJNA:
TEXT IN TRANSLITERATION:
kshetra kshetrajnayar evam antaram jnaana chakshushaa
bhootaprakriti moksham cha ye vidur yaanti te param
SANSKRIT WORDS AND PHRASES AND THEIR MEANING IN ENGLISH:
Kshetra kshetrajnayah = between the kshetra and kshetrajna: evam = thus: antaram = distinction: jnaana chakshushaa = by the eye of knowledge: bhoota prakriti moksham = the liberation from the prakriti of being: cha = and: ye = who: viduh = know: yaanti = go: te = they: param = the Supreme.
TEXT IN ENGLISH:
They who perceive with the eye of wisdom this distinction between the Kshetra and Kshetrajna and the deliverance of being from the Prakriti, they go to the Supreme.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The doctor has to understand first the nature of the disease and the peculiarities of the patient before he could effect a radical cure.   If either the ailment or the ailing person be not properly known, the treatment becomes ineffective to that extent. More earnest and more accurate ought to be the study of the Kshetra and Kshetrajna by the spiritual aspirant. The distinction between these two has to be clearly understood. Above all, the development of the intuitive faculty by means of a co-ordinated and devotionally tuned spiritual life is most  imperative. For, the divine eye alone opens up the vista of Truth. Mere book learning leads the aspirant nowhere. Whereas the intuitive knowledge makes him consonant with the Reality. The dream and the delusion of the earth-bound life is transcended. That Brahman is the Eternal Verity is realized in samaadhi. The Prakriti appears and disappears on the substratum of the Purusha. The goal of the Jivatman is not to get entangled in Prakriti, but to make use of it with an attitude of detachment and gain reunion with the  Paramatman.

SRIMAT SWAMI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA AS QUOTED BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANADNA:

It is easy to say that the world is Maya—a delusion. But do you know the  implication of this statement? It is like burning the camphor which leaves no residue. It is not like burning the fuel which leaves the ash behind. True spiritual pursuit leads the sadhaka or Practitioner into Samadhi in which the Jagat and the Jiva are eliminated. All relative existences vanish leaving behid Brahman, the Absolute.

COMMENTARY NOTE BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:
bhootaprakriti: the material nature of beings.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:
They who know through the eye of intuition opened by meditation and the instructions of the spiritual preceptor and the scriptures, that the field is insentient, the doer, changing and finite, and that the knower of the field (the Self) is pure consciousness, the non-doer, unchanging, and infinite, and who also perceive the non-existence of Nature, ignorance, the Unmanifested, the material cause of being—they attain the Supreme. Through the attainment of Self-realisation or knowledge of the Self they are entirely liberated from the clutches or the influence of Maya (delusion) and ignorance. They do not assume any more bodies. They are not born again. They attain Kaivalya Moksha.
In accordance with the doctrine of the Sankhyas, bondage and freedom do not pertain to the Self because It is always unattached and It is the non-doer and non-enjoyer and also without limbs or parts. But on account of Its union with Nature, It assumes agency through superimposition. When ignorance is annihilated through the knowledge of the Self, Nature which is conjoined with the Self is liberated. Then She gives up Her play or dance in front of the Spirit. She has discharged all Her duties well for the sake of the enjoyment and the release (Bhoga and Apavarga) of the Purusha (Spirit). Therefore the Sankhyas declare that bondage and freedom are staes of Nature only. Some interpret that the Self is emancipated from the shackles of Nature and Her modifications.
(This chapter is known by the name Prakriti-Purusha-Vibhaga Yoga also).

Comments by the blogger:
The key words are deliverance from the Prakriti or Nature.
We all are bonded to the all-and-over-mastering Nature. Our bondage did not start from the birth in this innings or incarnation. It started long long back; we have come here to live on the plane of the Earth repeatedly as various animals and then as human beings. Our rebirths are numberless. And yet there is no guarantee that this would be our last innings. We have started to read the commentaries of Srimat Bhagavad Gita written by the three great masters.  This will surely ensure our coming back here to the Earth as Human Beings! There need be no doubt about. For Sri Krishna promises that those persons or Practitioners of various systems of Yoga recommended in the Gita, if they happen to die before the attainment of complete emancipation from the thraldom of this earthly life, they will certainly come back to the earth as babies of great people who are past masters in the practice of Yoga! What Sri Krishna tells Arjuna is an ineffable Promise for all the times to the whole of the Humanity irrespective of  religions and places of birth! For Sri Krishna assures Arjuna when the latter asks as to what will happen to those Practitioners of Yoga who happen to die  prematurely, that is, before the attainment of Complete Emancipation; after our deaths, we will definitely come back to the earth and start from where we left off in the present innings. This is true of all sorts and kinds of people of the World irrespective of boundaries like religion and geography. We, every one of the people of the world, will come to the earth’s plane repeatedly to work out the balance of Karma, which is called the Prarabtha, that is, that part of the accumulated fund of Karma to work out in the next innings or birth. So whether we believe in the reincarnations and migration of the Soul, we would come back to this earth after every death. And this chain of rebirths will continue till our accumulated funds of karma have been worked out. Yoga or the various systems of meditation are there only to precipitate and reduce the number of births or re-births, to be more exact. We all, all the people of the world will attain emancipation. But the question is as to in how many re-births we achieve the goal. If it would take a person, according to his accumulated funds of karma, a thousand re-births the four kinds of Yoga recommended by the Lord in Gita will reduce it to two-three re-births!  That is how effective is the practice of Yoga.
We all need to attain emancipation from the all-mastering Prakriti or Nature. For Nature has numberless things to enchain and ensnare us birth after birth to the worldly life. Nature has inexhaustible food for our senses and it is not an easy joke to  script our yogic path to get away from the enslaving Prakriti.    
We must be able to see sense and know and experience the distinction between the Field and the Knower of the Fileds. It is possible to achieve this goal in a few number of re-births through a relentless practice of Yoga.

iti sreemad bhagavadgitaasoopanishatsu brahmavidyaayaam yogasaastre sree krrshnaarjuna samvaade kshetra kshetrajna vibhaga yogo naama trayodaso ‘dhyaayah

In the Upanishad of the Bhagavad Gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme, the science  of Yoga and the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, this is the thirteenth discourse designated:
                      THE YOGA OF THE DISCRIMINATION OF THE KSHETRA AND THE KSHETRAJNA

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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