Chapter 13 · Verse 35 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.35
Sanskrit
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा।भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम्।।13.35।।
Transliteration
kṣhetra-kṣhetrajñayor evam antaraṁ jñāna-chakṣhuṣhā bhūta-prakṛiti-mokṣhaṁ cha ye vidur yānti te param
In plain words
Right now, you may feel trapped by your circumstances—your body's pain, your role's weight, your mind's spiraling—as if that's all you are. Krishna says: there is a part of you that is watching all of this happen, untouched and eternal, and the moment you recognize that difference, the grip loosens. You are not your marriage crisis, your debt, your diagnosis, or your doubt about your purpose; you are the aware presence that observes them.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the supreme knowledge here: the capacity to distinguish between the temporary field of the body and the eternal consciousness that witnesses it. This discrimination—seeing with the eye of wisdom—is not intellectual abstraction but lived recognition that liberates you from the tyranny of matter itself.
When you truly know this difference, you stop fighting with your circumstances and align with what is deathless within you.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.35 — BG 13.35
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