Sunday, April 27, 2014

1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 34

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's  Gita  Bhashya and Swami Chidbhavananda's Bhagavad Gita, both published by Ramakrishna Mission

The conclusion is - 

Brahman is Self sufficient 31-34
Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 34

Varadaraja Perumal
Kshetra kshetragyoh  evam antaram gyana chakshusha I
Bhuta prakriti moksham cha ye viduh yanti te param II sloka 34
क्षेत्र क्षेत्रज्ञः एवं अन्तारं ज्ञान चक्षुषा I 
भूत प्रकृति मोक्षं च ये विदुः यान्ति ते परम् II  श्लोक 34

Thy who perceive with the eye of wisdom this distinction between the kshetra and kshetrahjna and the deliverance of beings from the prakriti, they go to the supreme.

The doctor has to understand first the nature of the disease and the peculiarities of the patient before he can effect a radical cure. If either the ailment or the ailing person be not properly known, the  treatment becomes ineffective to that extent. More earnest and more accurate ought to be the study of the kshetra and kshetrajna by the spiritual aspirant . The distinction between the two has to be clearly understood. Above all, the development of the intuitive faculty by means of a coordinated and devotionally tuned spiritual life is most imperative. For, the divine eye alone opens up the vistas to truth. Mere book learning leads the aspirant nowhere

Whereas the intuitive knowledge makes him constant with the reality. The dream and the delusionof the earth bound life is transcended. That brahman is the eternal verity is realised  in samadhi. The prakriti appears and disappears on the substratum of the purusha. The goal of the jivatman is not to get entangles in the prakriti, but to make use of it with an attitude of detachment and gain reunion with the Paramatman

Iti shrimad bhagavad gitasu upanishadtsu brahmavidyayam yogashastre srikrishna arjuna samvade kshetra kshetrajna yogo nama trayodashodhyayah I
इति श्रीमद भगवद्गीतासु उपनिशद्त्सु ब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे  श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन संवादे क्षेत्र क्षेत्रज्ञ  योगो नाम अष्टमोध्यायः  ।।


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