Lord Krishna in chapter 13 elaborates as to what is this body and its knower
Idam srirum kontey! khetrum itiabhidheyate I
Etadyo veti tam prahu khetragya itti tadvidah II (13.1)
Lord Krishna says that the embodiment is termed as the field.
And he, who knows it, sages call it, the Knower of the body.
Every embodiment, whatsoever may be the shape, is actually a field through which the blissful self soul ‘jeeva’ enjoys the fruit of his deeds.
(Self soul x three evolutes of material nature = action=fruits in form of joy and pain, happiness and sufferings x attachment and identification with actions coming naturally=birth, death and rebirth)
As a farmer sows seeds in a field, irrigates it and after a proper time, the fruits are obtained in the shape of crops. Some time, the divine destroys it by feminine or over raining or flood but fruit do occur.
Blissful jeeva in the companionship of material nature appears to act and react, desire and hate and performing other pairs like these. Though it itself is actually an onlooker, its identification and attachment with those deeds actually carried out by three qualities of nature tie down him with these deeds and their fruits coming as reactions.
Despite being aloof and unconcerned, his perception of doer causes him an unending conditioned bondage. It is made to undergo, through identification joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, happiness and distress, acquisition and loss of materialistic things etc.
The knower of this field is he Himself.
Invisible but seated in this body as consciousness
Consciousness is the Lord’s particle and illuminator of the embodiment.
Sages discerning the truth about both, differentiate both in form of eternal self and material nature.
Body which is field is actually result of attachment with material nature. Self is eternal but it identifies itself with that material nature in form of body, which he is not. Self soul’s identification with body is so grave that he percepts every worldly act to have been done by it.
It is like crystal clear and pure gem. It adopts the color of the any of the three modes of nature and then goes on to identify with them. It has then to undergo the fruit of attachment. This is why this body is termed as field. With the fruit exhausting the self soul leaves the body to further undergo the remaining fruits and gets another embodiment. Forgetting last body and its relations, it develops another sting of identification with that new body.
Khetragyam chapi mam vidhi sarvakhetreshua bharat I
Khetraksetshur gyanam yat tat gyanam matam mama I1 (2)
Know myself to be khetragya in all khetras, Arjun.
And I consider this knowledge of khetra and khetragya as Wisdom.
Individual soul in all the embodiments, is the same blissful self, Bahaman himself.
To understand it by a simple assumption:
Different earthen lamps are lighted by one burning candle. Light in candle and burning lamps are the same.
The entire universe is kindled with the same eternal spark of divinity. Lord eternal seated in all beings as enjoyer. He is not the doer of any act of the body. He has never done anything, nor he is doing anything nor will he do anything in future. But identification of self soul with the embodiment caused all the vicious circle of transmigration.
As a pure white sapphire put before a red color prism, reflects red color in it, so is the case of self soul identifying itself with material nature.
When do you think the self soul indulged in anger?
Never is the apt reply.
It was due to mode of passion that one is angered when his desire is not fulfilled or his command is not followed. In that fit of rage the self soul is onlooker.
Watch it when you are in rage.
So this is the attachment and identification which binds the pure self soul to this material body and acts coming from material nature. See that witness and identify your self with that. Rest assures you are that witness and not the body.
Wisdom does not create anything new.
It illuminates the already existing facts. If one is ignorant of the existing fact, the fact itself does not vanish.
Wisdom is to know the embodiment and its knower charging and sparking it.
Soul in every creature is the blissful self himself without any differentiation.
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