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    "title": "Discourse 13: The Yoga of the Distinction Between the Field and the Knower of the Field",
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    "text": "## Discourse 13: The Yoga of the Distinction Between the Field and the Knower of the Field\n\n\nVerse 13:1: Arjuna said: Matter and Spirit, even the Field and the Knower of the Field, \nwisdom and that which ought to be known, these I fain would learn, O Keshava. \n\nVerse 13:2: The Blessed Lord said: This body, son of Kunti, is called the Field; that which \nknoweth it is called the Knower of the Field by the Sages. \n\nVerse 13:3: Understand Me as the Knower of the Field in all Fields, O Bharata. Wisdom as \nto the Field and the Knower of the Field, that in My opinion is the wisdom. \n\nVerse 13:4: What that Field is and of what nature, how modified, and whence it is, and what \nHe is and what His powers, hear that now briefly from Me. \n\nVerse 13:5: Rishis have sung in manifold ways, in many various chants, and in decisive \nBrahma-sutra verses, full of reasonings. \n\nVerse 13:6: The great Elements, Individuality, Reason and also the unmanifested, the ten \nsenses and the one, and the five pastures of the senses; \n\nVerse 13:7: Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, combination, intelligence, firmness; these, \nbriefly described, constitute the Field and its modifications. \n\nVerse 13:8: Humility, unpretentiousness, harmlessness, forgiveness, rectitude, service of the \nteacher, purity, steadfastness, self-control, \n\nVerse 13:9: Dispassion towards the objects of the senses, and also absence of egoism, \ninsight into the pain and evil of birth, death, old age and sickness, \n\nVerse 13:10: Unattachment, absence of self-identification with son, wife or home, and \nconstant balance of mind in wished-for and unwished-for events, \n\nVerse 13:11: Unflinching devotion to Me by yoga, without other objects, resort to \nsequestered places, absence of enjoyment in the company of men, \n\nVerse 13:12: Constancy in the wisdom of the Self, understanding of the object of essential \nwisdom; that is declared to be the Wisdom; all against it is ignorance. \n\nVerse 13:13: I will declare that which ought to be known, that which being known \nimmortality is enjoyed—the beginningless supreme Eternal, called neither being nor non- \nbeing. \n\nVerse 13:14: Everywhere That hath hands and feet, everywhere eyes, heads, and mouths; \nall-hearing, He dwelleth in the world, enveloping all. \n\nVerse 13:15: Shining with all sense-faculties without any senses; unattached supporting \neverything and free from qualities enjoying qualities; \n\nVerse 13:16: Without and within all beings, immovable and also movable; by reason of His \nsubtlety imperceptible; at hand and far away is That. \n\nVerse 13:17: Not divided amid beings, and yet seated distributively; that is to be known as \nthe supporter of beings; He devours and He generates. \n\nVerse 13:18: That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness; Wisdom, the Object \nof Wisdom, by Wisdom to be reached, seated in the hearts of all. \n\nVerse 13:19: Thus the Field, Wisdom and the Object of Wisdom, have been briefly told. My \ndevotee, thus knowing, enters into My Being. \n\nVerse 13:20: Know thou that Matter and Spirit are both without beginning; and know thou \nalso that modifications and qualities are all Matter-born. \n\nVerse 13:21: Matter is called the cause of the generation of causes and effects; Spirit is \ncalled the cause of the enjoyment of pleasure and pain. \n\nVerse 13:22: Spirit seated in Matter useth the qualities born of Matter; attachment to the \nqualities is the cause of his births in good and evil wombs. \n\nVerse 13:23: Supervisor and permitter, supporter, enjoyer, the great Lord, and also the \nsupreme Self; thus is styled in this body the supreme Spirit. \n\nVerse 13:24: He who thus knoweth Spirit and Matter with its qualities, in whatsoever \ncondition he may be, he shall not be born again. \n\nVerse 13:25: Some by meditation behold the Self in the self by the Self; others by the \nSankhya Yoga, and others by the Yoga of Action; \n\nVerse 13:26: Others also, ignorant of this, having heard of it from others, worship; and these \nalso cross beyond death, adhering to what they had heard. \n\nVerse 13:27: Whatsoever creature is born, immobile or mobile, know thou, O best of the \nBharatas, that it is from the union between the Field and the Knower of the Field. \n\nVerse 13:28: Seated equally in all beings, the supreme Lord, unperishing within the \nperishing—he who thus seeth, he seeth. \n\nVerse 13:29: Seeing indeed everywhere the same Lord equally dwelling, he doth not destroy \nthe Self, and thus treads the highest Path. \n\nVerse 13:30: He who seeth that Matter verily performeth all actions, and that the Self is \nactionless, he seeth. \n\nVerse 13:31: When he perceiveth the diversified existence of beings as rooted in One, and \nspreading forth from it, then he reacheth the Eternal. \n\nVerse 13:32: Being beginningless and without qualities, the imperishable supreme Self, \nthough seated in the body, O Kaunteya, worketh not nor is affected. \n\nVerse 13:33: As the omnipresent ether is not affected, by reason of its subtlety, so seated \neverywhere in the body the Self is not affected. \n\nVerse 13:34: As the one sun illumineth the whole earth, so the Lord of the Field illumineth \nthe whole Field, O Bharata. \n\nVerse 13:35: They who by the eyes of Wisdom perceive this difference between the Field \nand the Knower of the Field, and the liberation of beings from Matter, they go to the \nSupreme.",
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