Matter and Spirit (Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga)

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THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

1. This, the body, O son of Kunti, is called Kshetra; him who knows it, they who

know of them call Kshetrajna.

 

2. And do thou also know Me as Kshetrajna in all Kshetras, O Bharata. The

knowledge of Kshetra and Kshetrajna is deemed by Me as the knowledge.

 

3. And what that Kshetra is and of what nature and what its changes; and whence

is what; and who He is and what His powers; this hear thou briefly from Me.

 

4. Sung by sages, in many ways and distinctly, in various hymns, as also in the

suggestive words about Brahman, full of reasoning and decisive.

 

5. The Great Elements, Egoism, Reason, as also the Unmanifested, the ten senses

and one and the five objects of the senses.

 

6. Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate, intelligence, courage - the

Kshetra has been thus briefly described with its modifications.

 

7. Humility, modesty, innocence, patience, uprightness, service of the teacher,

purity, stead-fastness, self-control;

 

8. Absence of attachment for objects of the senses and also absence of egoism;

perception of evil in birth, death and old age, in sickness and pain;

 

9. Un-attachment, absence of affection for son, wife, home and the like and

constant equanimity on the attainment of the desirable and the undesirable;

 

10. Unflinching devotion to Me in Yoga of non-separation, resort to solitary

places, distaste for the society of men;

 

to be continued...