Kshetrajna in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to kshetrajna, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 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.
• 13.7Your reactions belong to the field, not to the knower.
• 13.14What seems separate is already filled with the supreme reality.
• 13.15What sustains everything is beyond the senses that perceive it.
• 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.
• 13.22Attachment to changing qualities keeps the cycle of birth going.
• 13.23Identity is borrowed from the body; the true self stands beyond it.
• 13.25The same realization opens through different disciplines.
• 13.27All forms arise from the meeting of awareness and changing nature.
• 13.29Seeing unity everywhere ends the violence that returns to yourself.
• 13.30Freedom begins when you stop claiming every action as yours.
• 13.32What you are remains unstained, even while life moves through you.
• 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.