Bhagavad Gītā 13.35Chapter 13 · Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña-Vibhāga-Yoga · Krishna → Arjuna · anuṣṭubh

क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा ।

भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर् यान्ति ते परम् ॥

kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor evam antaraṃ jñāna-cakṣuṣā

bhūta-prakṛti-mokṣaṃ ca ye vidur yānti te param

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meaning

Those who see with the eye of knowledge the difference between the field and its knower, and who understand how beings are released from material nature, reach the supreme.

Bhāṣyakāra purports

Śaṅkaraadvaita
Rāmānujaviśiṣṭādvaita
Madhvadvaita
Vallabhaśuddhādvaita
Śrīdharabhakti
Madhusūdanaadvaita-bhakti

ekras · bhāṣya

Those who, by the eye of jnana, jnana-chakshus, see the antara — the difference — between kshetra and kshetrajna; and who know bhuta-prakriti-moksha — the release of beings from prakriti — they yanti param, reach the supreme.

Krishna seals the chapter's whole teaching with one closing line: the discrimination, seen by the eye of knowledge, plus the recognition of how release happens — these together carry the bhakta to param.

Shankara reads precisely. The closing verse names the two operative seeings the chapter has been training. First, the antara — the difference — between kshetra and kshetrajna seen by jnana-chakshus, the eye that the chapter's twenty qualities have been opening. Second, bhuta-prakriti-moksha — the recognition that beings are released from prakriti when the false identification of witness with field dissolves. Those who hold both seeings reach param — the supreme — which for Shankara is recognition of one's own status as the non-dual Brahman.

Madhusudana reads the closing as the consummation of the whole chapter's adhyaropa-apavada arc. The kshetra has been described, qualified, and finally seen through; the kshetrajna has been named, qualified, and finally recognized as the only real. Jnana-chakshus is the eye that has been forged through the twenty qualities of 13.7-11; bhuta-prakriti-moksha is the actual fruit. Yanti te param — they reach the supreme — names the bhakta's full arrival at what the chapter has been pointing toward all along.

Ramanuja reads with characteristic warmth: those who, with the discriminative eye opened by the chapter's bhakta-discipline, see the difference between kshetra and kshetrajna — and who know how beings are released from bondage to prakriti — reach Bhagavan's supreme abode. The seeing is relational throughout: the kshetrajna is recognized as Bhagavan's body-knower in every body, the bhuta-prakriti-moksha is the release that the bhakti-orientation makes operative. Param is Bhagavan Himself.

Madhva reads on the bheda-frame: the antara — the eternal difference — between kshetra and kshetrajna is precisely what the jnana-chakshus is for. Without that eye, the bhuta-prakriti-moksha is unintelligible; with it, the jiva sees its own paratantra-mode aligning with svatantra Hari, and reaches the param that is Hari's unobstructed presence. The bheda is permanent; the reaching is into clear relation, not into merger.

Vallabha reads through pushti-marga: jnana-chakshus is the eye Krishna's prasada has been opening through the chapter's whole disclosure. Bhuta-prakriti-moksha is the release that Krishna grants when His lila has run its course in the bhakta. Yanti te param — they reach Krishna's supreme abode, the Goloka of full participation in His lila. The reaching is the bhakta's homecoming.

Shridhara reads cleanly: by jnana-chakshus, the eye of knowledge — sharpened through the chapter's twenty qualities and the prakriti-purusha viveka — the bhakta sees both the antara of field and field-knower, and the moksha of beings from prakriti. These two seeings together bring the bhakta to the supreme. The chapter's whole teaching converges in the one closing line.

Context

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Chapter 13 · Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña-Vibhāga-Yoga · meter anuṣṭubh

who speaks

Krishna → Arjuna

preceded by — BG 13.34

Just as one sun lights the whole world, the single knower of the field lights the entire field, Arjuna, yet is no more stained by it than the sun is stained by what it shines on.

What's going on

Those who see with the eye of knowledge the difference between the field and its knower, and who understand how beings are released from material nature, reach the supreme.

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Śabda · lemmas (15 unique · 15 occurrences)

चक्षुषा cakṣus — eye; sight · instrumental neuter singular noun
यान्ति √yā — to go (verbal root) · present indicative 3rd person plural verb

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क्षेत्र kṣetra — field, body (as the field of experience) · compound · also at 1.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.6, 13.18 +2
क्षेत्रज्ञयोः kṣetrajña — knower of the field (kṣetra + jña) · genitive masculine dual noun
एवम् evam — thus, in this way
अन्तरम् antara — interior, inner; interval, between · accusative neuter singular noun
ज्ञान jñāna — knowledge, wisdom, cognition · compound · also at 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.26, 3.32 +70
भूत bhūta — being, creature; element; past, gone · compound
प्रकृति prakṛti — primordial nature (pra- + √kṛ 'do' — 'that from which all is made') · compound · also at 1.1, 3.5, 3.28, 3.33, 4.6, 5.10 +17
मोक्षम् mokṣa — liberation, release (from √muc) · accusative masculine singular noun
च ca — and; (homonym: also the consonant ca)
ये yad — which, who (relative pronoun) · nominative masculine plural noun
विदुः √vid — to know; to find (verbal root) · past indicative 3rd person plural verb
ते tad — that (distal demonstrative); also 3rd-person pronoun · nominative masculine plural noun
परम् para — highest, supreme, beyond, other · accusative neuter singular noun

Adhiṣṭhāna · substrate signature

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Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 13, Verse 35: Krishna to Arjuna — Kṣetra-Kṣetrajña-Vibhāga-Yoga

Bhāṣyakāra purports