Chapter 13 · Verse 7 · Ksetra Ksetrajna Vibhaaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 13.7
Sanskrit
इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतनाधृतिः।एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकारमुदाहृतम्।।13.7।।
Transliteration
ichchhā dveṣhaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ saṅghātaśh chetanā dhṛitiḥ etat kṣhetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛitam
In plain words
You are not your craving for what you've lost, and you are not your fear of what might happen next—these are just movements happening in the mind, like clouds passing through sky. Krishna says: the real you is the awareness that watches all of it, untouched. When you can separate yourself from the constant pull of wanting and rejecting, from the emotional storm, you find a place inside that nothing can shake.
Word by Word
Krishna unveils the nature of the field itself—desire and aversion, pleasure and pain, the very aggregate of body and mind held together by consciousness and will. These are not your essence, but the costume consciousness wears in this world.
When you stop identifying with this perpetually shifting drama of likes and dislikes, you discover the witnessing Self beyond all modification. In modern life, this means recognizing that your anxieties, cravings, and emotional storms are weather patterns in the field, not who you are—a radical freedom that transforms how you respond to difficulty.
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Bhagavad Gita 13.7 — BG 13.7
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