Matter and Spirit (Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga)

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21. Purusha, when seated in Prakriti, experiences the qualities born of

Prakriti. Attachment to the qualities is the cause of his birth in good and evil

wombs.

 

22. Spectator and Permitter, Supporter, Enjoyer, the Great Lord and also spoken

of as the Supreme Self, (is) the Purusha Supreme in this body.

 

23. He who thus knows Purusha and Prakriti together with qualities, whatever his

conduct, he is not born again.

 

24. By meditation some behold the Self in the self by the self others by Sankhya

Yoga and others by Karma Yoga.

 

25. Yet others, not knowing thus, worship, having heard from others; they, too,

cross beyond death, adhering to what they heard.

 

26. Whatever being is born, the unmoving or the moving, know thou, O best of the

Bharatas, that to be owing to the union of Kshetra and Kshetrajna.

 

27. He sees who sees the Supreme Lord, remaining the same in all beings, the

undying in the dying.

 

28. Because he who sees the Lord, seated the same everywhere, destroys not the

self by the self, therefore he reaches the Supreme Goal.

 

29. He sees, who sees all actions performed by Prakriti alone and the Self not

acting.

 

30. When a man realises the whole variety of beings as resting in the One and is

an evolution from that (One) alone, then he becomes Brahman.

 

31. Having no beginning, having no qualities, this Supreme Self, imperishable,

though dwelling in the Body, O son of Kunti, neither acts nor is tainted.

 

32. As the all-pervading Akasa is, from its subtlety, never soiled, so the Self

seated in the body everywhere is not soiled.

 

33. As the one sun illumines all this world, so does the embodied One, O

Bharata, illumines all bodies.

 

34. They who by the eye of wisdom perceive the distinction between Kshetra and

Kshetrajna and the dissolution of the Cause of beings - they go to the Supreme.