Chapter 13: Kshetra-kshetrajna-vibhaga-yoga – Distinction between Object Field and its Knower: Verse 27
यावत्सञ्जायते किञ्चित्सत्त्वं स्थावरजङ्गमम्।
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञसंयोगात्तद्विद्धि भरतर्षभ ॥
yāvat-sañjāyate kiñcitsattvaṃ
sthāvara-jaṅgamam
kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saṃyogāttad-
viddhi bharatarṣabha – 13.27
Whatever being, mobile or immobile, is born, understand it to be an effect of the conjunction of kshetra and Kshetrajña (Nature and Consciousness), O the great among Bharatas (Arjuna).
Chapter 13: Kshetra-kshetrajna-vibhaga-yoga – Distinction between Object Field and its Knower - Verse 27
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
This is Krishna’s summary statement, making his exposition simple and easy to pursue. Entire creation consists of movable and immovable things, made up of kshetra (verses 6 & 7) and Kshetrajna (verse 3). There is no existence or expression in creation, which does not contain kshetra and Kshetrajna, the material and sentient aspects.
Division of existence into living and non-living is not final. The difference is only superficial, not ultimate and absolute. Senses may register their impression, but the truth the intelligence has to reveal is different, as in the case of the sun rising, moving and setting.
Anything can exist only when the Kshetrajna is immanent in it. Nothing bereft of Consciousness can ever be. Right from the 2nd chapter Krishna has been stressing this all-pervading, singular nature of Consciousness. The whole objectude is an appearance in the Subject Consciousness.
