Chapter 13 · Verse 20 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.20
Sanskrit
प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्ध्यनादी उभावपि।विकारांश्च गुणांश्चैव विद्धि प्रकृतिसंभवान्।।13.20।।
Transliteration
prakṛitiṁ puruṣhaṁ chaiva viddhy anādī ubhāv api vikārānśh cha guṇānśh chaiva viddhi prakṛiti-sambhavān
In plain words
You're suffering because you're claiming ownership of things that were never yours to control—your body's aging, your emotions' storms, the losses that keep happening. Krishna says: there is a part of you that is not changing, not breaking, not dying—the part that simply *knows* and witnesses all of this. Stop fighting what nature does. Start resting in what you actually are.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the eternal architecture of existence: Prakriti (Nature) and Purusha (Consciousness) are both beginningless, neither created nor destroyed, only dancing in eternal relationship. All transformations you witness—your body's changes, emotions, the three gunas pulling at your awareness—arise from Prakriti alone, while your true Self remains the eternal witness untouched by these movements.
When you truly know this distinction, you stop claiming ownership of what happens to you and begin to recognize the unchanging awareness that observes it all—this knowing itself is the gateway to freedom.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.20 — BG 13.20
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