Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna said:
- Krsna, I want to learn all there is to know
What is nature, God, the body, the soul?
Lord Krsna said
- Arjuna, the body is called the field
And the soul, the knower, does its knowledge wield
- I’m also the knower in everyone you see
And to know this is wisdom according to Me
8-12 Now I will declare all knowledge indeed
All the rest is ignorance, things we don’t need
8-12 con’t Nonviolence, self control, humility,
Tolerance, learning well, simplicity,
Renunciation, self control, cleanliness
The absence of false ego, steadiness
8-12 con’t Perceiving the pain of birth, death and disease
Detachment from home and the things we don’t need
In pleasure and pain, never loosing the mind
Pure devotion to Me that never ends in time
8-12 con’t Aspiring to live a solitary life
Detachment from the masses and the strife
Accepting the importance of self realization
Searching for the absolute (ultimate) destination
- And now the knowable I shall explain
Knowing which you shall taste the eternal plane
The spirit is beginningless and under Me
It lies beyond this world, beyond what we can see
- Everywhere are His hands, legs, eyes, ears, (and) faces
In this way He exists, pervading all places
- He is beyond our power to see or to know
Although far far away, He is near to all
- Although He appears divided, appears small
He is one, never divided at all
Although He’s the maintainer of all living beings
He devours and develops all things
- In all that shines, He’s the source of light
Unmanifested, beyond matter’s dark night
He is knowledge, its object, and its goal
He is in everyone’s heart, the Supersoul
- Knowledge, the knowable, and the body
Have been summarily described by Me
Only My devotees can understand this
And attain My nature and achieve complete bliss
- Both nature and soul are far beyond time
They’re controlled and transformed by this nature of mine
- Thus nature is the cause of activity’s chain
But you are the cause of your pleasure and pain
- Thus the living being enjoys the episodes
Of material life under the three modes
Due to this contact nature will decide
In what species he’ll live and how he’ll survive.
- Yet in this body there is still another
The Lord who owns all, the real enjoyer
Dwelling in all hearts He is playing the role
Of permitter and witness, known as the Supersoul
- Whatever you see before you and behind
Is only the field and its knower entwined
- One who sees the Lord along with the soul
Does not degrade himself and heads towards the goal
- Those with the vision of eternity
Can see that the soul is transcendent and free
Despite contact with the body and mind
The soul does nothing nor is ever entwined
- Those with the eyes of knowledge can see
The difference between the soul and body
(Those with the eyes of knowledge can know
The difference between the body and soul)
And understand how liberation is gained
Thus in this world they’ll no longer remain
