🪷 Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña Yoga · The Antya-Ṣaṭka Opens

Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 13 · 35 verses · the first chapter beyond the Madhya-Ṣaṭka · the body as field, Krishna as the Knower-of-every-field

BG 13.1-2 · The Definition

इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते।
एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः॥

"This body, O Kaunteya, is called the kṣetra (the field). He who knows it — the knowers of truth call him the kṣetrajña (the knower of the field)."

Then in BG 13.3, Krishna delivers the non-dual revelation: HE is the kṣetrajña in every body. Every jīva's "I" is, at its deepest, Krishna's "I." The whole substrate of Vedānta sits in this single verse.

BG 13.5-6 · The Kṣetra Has 31 Elements

Krishna enumerates the body-as-field with engineering precision — the entire Sāṅkhya tattva-taxonomy:

#	Sanskrit	English	Category	Verse
1	पृथिवी	Earth	mahabhuta	BG 13.5
2	आपः	Water	mahabhuta	BG 13.5
3	तेजः	Fire	mahabhuta	BG 13.5
4	वायुः	Air	mahabhuta	BG 13.5
5	आकाशम्	Space (ākāśa)	mahabhuta	BG 13.5
6	अहङ्कार	Ahaṅkāra (I-maker)	inner instrument	BG 13.5
7	बुद्धिः	Buddhi (discriminative intellect)	inner instrument	BG 13.5
8	अव्यक्तम्	Avyakta (un-manifest prakṛti / mūla-prakṛti)	inner instrument	BG 13.5
9	श्रोत्रम्	Ear (hearing)	jnana indriya	BG 13.5
10	त्वक्	Skin (touch)	jnana indriya	BG 13.5
11	चक्षुः	Eye (sight)	jnana indriya	BG 13.5
12	रसना	Tongue (taste)	jnana indriya	BG 13.5
13	घ्राणम्	Nose (smell)	jnana indriya	BG 13.5
14	मनः	Manas (mind · 11th indriya)	karma indriya	BG 13.5
15	वाक्	Speech (vāk)	karma indriya	BG 13.5
16	पाणी	Hands (pāṇī)	karma indriya	BG 13.5

…and 15 more (the remaining tanmātras, experiences, dhṛti) — see the full 31 in the JSON API. The 31 elements together compose the entire body-field. None of them are the Knower; all are objects-of-knowledge for the One who illumines them.

BG 13.7-11 · The 20 Marks of Jñāna

Krishna does not give an abstract definition of knowledge. He gives 20 testable qualities — when these are present, jñāna is present. When absent, only information remains:

#	Sanskrit	IAST	English	Verse
1	अमानित्वम्	amānitva	Absence of self-importance · humility	BG 13.7
2	अदम्भित्वम्	adambhitva	Absence of pretension · no display	BG 13.7
3	अहिंसा	ahiṁsā	Non-violence in thought, word, deed	BG 13.7
4	क्षान्तिः	kṣānti	Forgiveness · patient endurance	BG 13.7
5	आर्जवम्	ārjava	Straightforwardness · simplicity	BG 13.7
6	आचार्योपासनम्	ācāryopāsanam	Service of the teacher · guru-bhakti	BG 13.7
7	शौचम्	śaucam	Purity (inner and outer)	BG 13.7
8	स्थैर्यम्	sthairyam	Steadiness · firmness	BG 13.7
9	आत्मविनिग्रहः	ātma-vinigraha	Self-restraint	BG 13.7
10	इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यम्	indriyārtheṣu vairāgya	Dispassion toward sense-objects	BG 13.8
11	अनहङ्कारः	anahaṅkāra	Absence of egoism	BG 13.8
12	जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखदोषानुदर्शनम्	janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣa-anudarśanam	Constant perception of birth-death-old age-disease as defects	BG 13.8
13	असक्तिः	asakti	Non-attachment	BG 13.9
14	अनभिष्वङ्गः	anabhiṣvaṅga	Absence of clinging (to son, wife, home)	BG 13.9
15	नित्यसमचित्तत्वम्	nitya-sama-cittatva	Constant even-mindedness in pleasant and unpleasant events	BG 13.9
16	मयि चानन्ययोगेन भक्तिः	mayi cānanya-yogena bhakti	Unswerving devotion to Me through non-other (ananya) yoga	BG 13.10
17	विविक्तदेशसेवित्वम्	vivikta-deśa-sevitva	Resort to solitary places	BG 13.10
18	अरतिर्जनसंसदि	aratir jana-saṁsadi	No taste for the company of crowds	BG 13.10
19	अध्यात्मज्ञाननित्यत्वम्	adhyātma-jñāna-nityatva	Constancy in knowledge-of-the-Self	BG 13.11
20	तत्त्वज्ञानार्थदर्शनम्	tattva-jñāna-artha-darśanam	Seeing the goal of knowledge-of-Truth	BG 13.11

BG 13.27-28 · Sama-Darśana — The Non-Dual Gaze

समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम्।
विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति॥

"He who sees the Supreme Lord standing equally in all beings — the un-perishing in the perishing — he truly sees." (BG 13.27)

When you see Krishna in every face, you cannot harm anyone (BG 13.28 — na hinasty ātmanātmānam tato yāti parāṁ gatim). Sama-darśana makes ahiṁsā natural.

BG 13.33 · The Sun-of-the-Field

यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।
क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत॥

"As one sun illumines this whole world, so the Kṣetrī (Krishna, the Knower-of-the-Field) illumines the entire kṣetra (body), O Bhārata." (BG 13.33)

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🪷 All 35 Verses · Chapter 13

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