Chapter 13 · Verse 19 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.19
Sanskrit
इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः।मद्भक्त एतद्विज्ञाय मद्भावायोपपद्यते।।13.19।।
Transliteration
iti kṣhetraṁ tathā jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ choktaṁ samāsataḥ mad-bhakta etad vijñāya mad-bhāvāyopapadyate
In plain words
You are drowning in questions about who you are, what you're meant to do, what matters and what doesn't—and the not-knowing itself feels like a failure. Krishna says: the moment you stop trying to figure it all out from the outside and instead recognize the eternal witness within you, the one who sees through all confusion, you touch something unshakeable—and that touch is closeness to the divine itself. Understanding what is temporary and what is real isn't about getting answers; it's about becoming still enough to recognize yourself.
Word by Word
Krishna closes His revelation of the field and the knower with a sacred summary: understand the nature of matter, the consciousness that witnesses it, and what is worth knowing, and you have understood My very being. This is not intellectual knowledge alone—it is the lived recognition that dissolves the boundary between knower and known.
For the modern seeker, this means that every moment of clarity about what is temporary and what is eternal is an act of communion with the divine itself.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.19 — BG 13.19
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