Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga

The field and the knower of the field. The body, the world, and the awareness that watches both. Where the inquiry into self begins.

All 35 verses below.

Verses

• 13.1Real knowing starts by separating the seen from the seer.
• 13.2The body is observed; the knower is something else.
• 13.3Knowing the field is incomplete without knowing the knower.
• 13.4Clear seeing begins by separating the field from the one who knows it.
• 13.5Ancient sources converge on one disciplined way of seeing.
• 13.6What you call “me” is a changing system, not a single thing.
• 13.7Your reactions belong to the field, not to the knower.
• 13.8True strength is quiet discipline, not self-display.
• 13.9Freedom begins when desire stops dressing suffering as reward.
• 13.10Clinging fades; the mind stays level.
• 13.11True devotion stays with one center and loses interest in the crowd.
• 13.12Knowledge is seeing reality steadily; everything else is confusion.
• 13.13The highest reality frees you precisely because it outgrows every label.
• 13.14What seems separate is already filled with the supreme reality.
• 13.15What sustains everything is beyond the senses that perceive it.
• 13.16What seems distant is already within everything.
• 13.17Separation is only appearance; the many are held by one.
• 13.18What illumines everything is already nearest to you.
• 13.19Clear understanding becomes transformation when devotion receives it.
• 13.20Change belongs to nature; awareness is not caught in it.
• 13.21Action belongs to nature; experience belongs to the one who knows.
• 13.22Attachment to changing qualities keeps the cycle of birth going.
• 13.23Identity is borrowed from the body; the true self stands beyond it.
• 13.24Clear seeing frees you while life still continues.
• 13.25The same realization opens through different disciplines.
• 13.26Devoted listening can carry a person beyond fear and mortality.
• 13.27All forms arise from the meeting of awareness and changing nature.
• 13.28Real seeing notices one imperishable presence in every changing form.
• 13.29Seeing unity everywhere ends the violence that returns to yourself.
• 13.30Freedom begins when you stop claiming every action as yours.
• 13.31Many beings are one reality seen through different forms.
• 13.32What you are remains unstained, even while life moves through you.
• 13.33What is everywhere cannot be stained by what changes.
• 13.34Awareness illuminates everything without being touched by what it sees.
• 13.35Clear seeing separates you from what changes and opens the way beyond it.