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Adhyāyas / Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña-Vibhāga Yogaḥ / verse 34

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा। भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम्
kṣhetra-kṣhetrajñayor evam antaraṁ jñāna-chakṣhuṣhā bhūta-prakṛiti-mokṣhaṁ cha ye vidur yānti te param
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

Those who, through the eye of wisdom, know the distinction between the field and the Knower of the field, and the annihilation of the Matrix of beings, reach the Supreme.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

इस प्रकार, जो पुरुष ज्ञानचक्षु के द्वारा क्षेत्र और क्षेत्रज्ञ के भेद को तथा प्रकृति के विकारों से मोक्ष को जानते हैं, वे परम ब्रह्म को प्राप्त होते हैं।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
क्षेत्रक् षेत्रज्ञयो रेवम्
अन्त रञ् ज्ञान चक्षुषा
भूतप् रकृति मोक्षञ् च
ये विदुर् यान्ति ते परम्
॥ ३४ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
kṣhetrathe body
kṣhetra-jñayoḥof the knower of the body
evamthus
antaramthe difference
jñāna-chakṣhuṣhāwith the eyes of knowledge
bhūtathe living entity
prakṛiti-mokṣhamrelease from material nature
chaand
yewho
viduḥknow
yāntiapproach
tethey
paramthe Supreme

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
13.34Those who know That, attain That.

“Those who thus perceive, with the eye of knowledge (jñāna-cakṣuṣā), the distinction between the field and its knower, and the liberation of beings from Prakṛti — they go to the Supreme.” The chapter’s seal. The single instrument of freedom is the jñāna-cakṣus, the eye of discrimination that separates the seer from the seen, the witness from the field, the Self from Nature. To see this clearly — and to see the way out of Prakṛti’s grip — is to be free. Knowledge, here, is not a description of liberation; it is liberation itself.