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यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत।।13.34।।

yathā prakāśhayaty ekaḥ kṛitsnaṁ lokam imaṁ raviḥ kṣhetraṁ kṣhetrī tathā kṛitsnaṁ prakāśhayati bhārata

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 13, Verse 34
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Just as the one sun illuminates the entire world, so too does the Lord of the field (Supreme Self) illuminate the entire field, O Arjuna.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: as the one sun illuminates this whole world, so does the Lord of the field illuminate the entire field, using another natural image, one sun lighting an entire world, to describe a single source of awareness illuminating an entire, varied field of experience.

In life: your single, ongoing awareness is what actually illuminates and makes sense of the entire variety of your daily experience, work, relationships, feelings, rather than each area needing an entirely separate kind of awareness.

Teaching: trust that the same single, cultivated awareness you're building through any one area of practice, work, relationships, reflection, actually illuminates and benefits every other area of your life too, not just the specific area where you're practicing it.

yathāas
prakāśhayatiillumines
ekaḥone
kṛitsnamentire
lokamsolar system
imamthis
raviḥsun
kṣhetramthe body
kṣhetrīthe soul
tathāso
kṛitsnamentire
prakāśhayatiillumine
bhārataArjun, the son of Bharat

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
13.34 यथा as? प्रकाशयति illumines? एकः one? कृत्स्नम् the whole? लोकम् world? इमम् this? रविः sun? क्षेत्रम् the field? क्षेत्री the Lord of the field (Paramatma)? तथा so? कृत्स्नम् the whole? प्रकाशयति illumines? भारत O descendant of Bharata (Arjuna).Commentary The Supreme Self is one. It illumines the whole matter from the Unmanifested down to the blade of grass or a lump of clay? from the great elements down to firmness or fortitude. (Cf. verses 5 and 6.) Just as the sun is one? just as the sun illumines the whole world? just as the sun is not tainted? so also the Self is One in all bodies? It illumines all the bodies and It is not contaminated.