Kshetra Kshetrajna in the Bhagavad Gita
Kshetra and kshetrajna are the field and its knower: the body with all that is known, and the awareness that knows it (Chapter 13).
Verses across the Gita that speak to kshetra kshetrajna, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.
- 13.5Ch. 13
Ancient sources converge on one disciplined way of seeing.
You are not being asked to believe blindly; the teaching is grounded in many clear sources.
- 13.10Ch. 13
Clinging fades; the mind stays level.
You can love without gripping. Stability grows when approval and loss stop steering your mood.
- 13.12Ch. 13
Knowledge is seeing reality steadily; everything else is confusion.
Clear seeing feels simpler than grasping at appearances.
- 13.13Ch. 13
The highest reality frees you precisely because it outgrows every label.
The reality Krishna points to sits beyond both "it exists" and "it does not exist".
- 13.21Ch. 13
Action belongs to nature; experience belongs to the one who knows.
You can stop confusing what happens with who you are.
- 13.24Ch. 13
Clear seeing frees you while life still continues.
Seeing self, nature and qualities clearly frees you from rebirth, even while you keep living and working.
- 13.28Ch. 13
Real seeing notices one imperishable presence in every changing form.
The world feels less divided when you stop sorting beings into separate categories and notice the same presence in all.
- 13.31Ch. 13
Many beings are one reality seen through different forms.
Separation starts to soften. What looked divided begins to feel like one living whole.
- 13.33Ch. 13
What is everywhere cannot be stained by what changes.
You are closer to awareness than to whatever passes through awareness.
- 15.9Ch. 15
Experience passes through mind and senses; it does not define the true self.
What you call experience is filtered through mind and senses, not raw reality.