Kṣhetra Kṣhetrajña Vibhāg Yog: Yog through Distinguishing the Field and the Knower of the Field

Chapter 13: With 35 verses or shlokas, the thirteenth chapter is one of the medium-length chapters, and it discusses the concepts of kṣhetra (the field) and kṣhetrajña (knower of the field). While the first 6 chapters focus on Karm Yog, and the next 6 chapters deal with Bhakti Yog, the last 6 are related to tattva jñāna.

Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Shloka 2-35): 34 Shlokas

Arjuna (Shloka 1): 1 Shloka

Brief Summary: Arjun enquires:

1. What are prakṛiti (the original or natural state of something) and puruṣh (the soul)?
2. What are kṣhetra (field) and kṣhetrajña (Knower of the field)?
3. What is true knowledge?
4. What is the goal of this knowledge?

The supreme lord then explains that "kṣhetra" refers to the entire field of activities. The knower of this body as the field is the "kṣhetrajña". The "field of activities" includes false ego, intelligence, sense objects, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, and the unmanifested. 

Shloka 8 to 12 describes what knowledge is. It includes:

1. Discerning between the field and the knower of the field.
2. Humbleness (absence of false ego), cleanliness of mind and body, non-violence, forgiveness, freedom from hypocrisy, simplicity, finding the guru, steadfastness and self-control.
3. Freedom from the misery of birth, death, old age, and disease.
4. Dispassion from the sense objects
5. Non-entanglement (spouse, home, children, money, society, etc). 
6. Devotion to the supreme lord, the importance of self-realisation
7. Constant learning of spiritual knowledge. Everything else is ignorance.

The explanation about the super soul is revealed in the subsequent shlokas. 

1. It is all-pervading.
2. He is without senses.
3. He is maintainer
4. He transcends the mode of nature
5. He is unattached
6. He is inside (heart) and outside of all living beings
7. He cannot be seen or known by the power of material senses.
8. It appears divided, but it is actually situated in one.
9. He is the source of light in all luminous objects
10. He is knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the goal of knowledge.

The material energy of creation (Prakrti) and consciousness that drives it (Purusha) are without beginning. All attributes and changes to these attributes are driven by the energy of creation.

One can attain enlightenment by:

1. Understanding the philosophy of modes of material nature & living entities
2. Meditation
3. Cultivation of knowledge
4. Working without fruitive desires
5. Who begins to worship the supreme person
6. Persons who live in the present moment

One who knows the difference between body and knower of the body and also understands the process of liberation from bondage in material nature can attain liberation.

Favorite Shlokas:

Shloka 9:

indriyartheshu vairagyam anahankara eva cha
janma-mrityu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-doshanudarshanam

Shloka 25:

dhyānenātmani paśhyanti kechid ātmānam ātmanā

anye sānkhyena yogena karma-yogena chāpare