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श्री भगवानुवाचइदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते।एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः।।13.2।।

śhrī-bhagavān uvācha idaṁ śharīraṁ kaunteya kṣhetram ity abhidhīyate etad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ kṣhetra-jña iti tad-vidaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 13, Verse 2
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The Blessed Lord said, "O Arjuna, this body is called the field; he who knows it is called the knower of the field by those who know them."

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: know Krishna also to be the knower of the field in all fields, knowledge of the field and its knower is considered true knowledge, extending the personal distinction to a universal one shared across all beings.

In life: the same quiet, observing awareness you notice in yourself during a stressful moment is something every other person also has access to, even when their circumstances look completely different from yours.

Teaching: the next time you're struggling with someone else's difficult behavior, remember they likely have access to that same quiet, observing part of themselves, even if it's currently buried under their own version of the same field of circumstance and reaction.

śhrī-bhagavān uvāchathe Supreme Divine Lord said
idamthis
śharīrambody
kaunteyaArjun, the son of Kunti
kṣhetramthe field of activities
itithus
abhidhīyateis termed as
etatthis
yaḥone who
vettiknows
tamthat person
prāhuḥis called
kṣhetra-jñaḥthe knower of the field
itithus
tat-vidaḥthose who discern the truth

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
13.2 इदम् this? शरीरम् body? कौन्तेय O son of Kunti (Arjuna)? क्षेत्रम् the field? इति thus? अभिधीयते is called? एतत् this? यः who? वेत्ति knows? तम् him? प्राहुः (they) call? क्षेत्रज्ञः the knower of the field? इति thus? तद्विदः the knowers of that.Commentary Kshetra literally means field. The body is so called because the fruits (harvest) of actions in the form of pleasure and pain are reaped in it as in a field. The physical? the mental and the causal bodies go to constitute the totality of the field. It is not the physical body alone that forms the field.He who knows the field and he who beholds it as distinct from himself through knowledge is the knower of the field or matter.Those who know them The sages.