अर्जुन उवाच
प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव क्षेत्रं क्षेत्रज्ञमेव च।
एतद्वेदितुमिच्छामि ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च केशव।।13.1।।
श्री भगवानुवाचइदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते।एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः।।13.2।।
क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत।
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम।।13.3।।
Swami Gambhirananda has not translated this verse. Many editions of the Bhagavad Gita do not contain this verse, including the commentary by Shankaracharya. If this verse is included, the total number of verses in the Bhagavad Gita is 701.
The Blessed Lord said, “O son of Kunti, this body is referred to as the ‘field’. Those who are versed in this call him who is conscious of it the ‘knower of the field’.”
And, O scion of the Bharata dynasty, understand Me to be the ‘Knower of the field’ in all the fields. In My opinion, that is Knowledge which is the knowledge of the field and the knower of the field.
Osho’s Commentary
For lifetimes you have searched for the cause of your misery, pointing your finger at everyone but yourself. You blame circumstances, you blame others, you even blame God. But I tell you, you are the seed of your own suffering. The only true bondage is your identification with that which you are not. This body, Krishna says, is the kshetra, the field. It is the soil where all events happen—pleasure, pain, birth, death. It is the objective world, that which is seen. And you, the consciousness within, are the kshetrajna, the knower of the field. You are the witness, the one who watches. This is not a philosophy, my friend, it is the key to a revolution. The whole art of religion is to create a distance between the knower and the known. When the body is hungry, you know, “Hunger is happening in the field.” When a thought arises, you know, “A thought is passing through the field.” You remain the watcher on the hills, untouched, unstained. This knowing is the only alchemy. In this simple act of witnessing, the chains of identification are broken. You are no longer the pain, you are the one who knows the pain. In this knowing, you are free. And Krishna gives the ultimate secret. He says, “I am the knower in all fields.” When you look deep within and find that silent witness, you have found Me. For that witness is not yours or mine; it is one. We are different fields, but the sky of consciousness that watches over all the fields is one. To know this one knower within is to know the divine.