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TEXT 35 ksetra-ksetrajnayor evam
SYNONYMS  ksetra--body;
ksetra-jnayoh--of the proprietor of the body; evam--that;
antaram--difference; jnana-caksusa--by vision of knowledge;
bhuta--living entity; prakrti--material nature; moksam--liberation;
ca--also; ye--one who; viduh--knows; yanti--approaches;
te--they; param--Supreme.
TRANSLATION One who knowingly
sees this difference between the body and the owner of the body and can
understand the process of liberation from this bondage, also attains to
the supreme goal.
PURPORT The purport
of this Thirteenth Chapter is that one should know the distinction between
the body, the owner of the body, and the Supersoul. A faithful person should
at first have some good association to hear of God and thus gradually become
enlightened. If one accepts a spiritual master, he can learn to distinguish
between matter and spirit, and that becomes the steppingstone for further
spiritual realization. A spiritual master teaches his students to get free
from the material concept of life by various instructions. For instance,
in Bhagavad-gita we find Krsna instructing Arjuna to free him from
materialistic considerations.
One can
understand that this body is matter; it can be analyzed with its twenty-four
elements. That is the gross manifestation. And the subtle manifestation
is the mind and psychological effects. And the symptoms of life are the
interaction of these features. But over and above this, there is the soul,
and there is also the Supersoul. The soul and the Supersoul are two. This
material world is working by the conjunction of the soul and the twenty-four
material elements. One who can see the constitution of the whole material
manifestation as this combination of the soul and material elements and
also can see the situation of the Supreme Soul becomes eligible for transfer
to the spiritual world. These things are meant for contemplation and for
realization, and one should have a complete understanding of this chapter
with the help of the spiritual master.
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