Verse 13.3

क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत। क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम।।13.3।।

kṣhetra-jñaṁ chāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣhetreṣhu bhārata kṣhetra-kṣhetrajñayor jñānaṁ yat taj jñānaṁ mataṁ mama

Meaning

Yo, Arjuna, you gotta know that I'm the one who knows everything, everywhere. Knowing the field *and* the knower? That's the real knowledge, fam. It's all me.

Commentary

Okay, so like, the fields are all different, but the person *knowing* the fields is the same one. It's like, all the individual souls are different, but the Supreme Soul is, like, *one*. Wherever there's a mind, there's life, ego, and that individual consciousness thing. If you're stuck on this whole duality thing, you're gonna be reborn again and again. The only way to escape this loop is to, like, *know* that the individual soul and the Absolute are the same. We all go through that 'I'm happy, I'm sad, I did that, that's my experience' stuff. That's why individual souls are stuck in this cycle of pleasure and pain, in different bodies. But the Supreme Soul? Nah, it's chill. No pleasure, no pain, no Samsara. It's just *one*. If there was only one soul in all bodies, everyone would feel the same thing at the same time. If Rama has a stomach ache, Krishna would feel it too. If John's happy, Jacob would be too. If Choudhury gets stung by a scorpion, Banerjee would feel it. But that's not how it works, right? When Rama's hurting, Krishna's vibing. When John's lit, Jacob's down. When Choudhury's getting stung, Banerjee's eating breakfast. The fields are different, the bodies are different, the minds are different, and the individual souls are different. But the *knower* of all these fields? That's the same one. Pleasure and pain are just mind stuff. The individual soul is basically the same as the Supreme Soul. The knower, the Self, doesn't get affected by pleasure or pain, good or bad. It's just a silent observer. Pleasure and pain are mind things. People think their body *is* the Self, so they get caught up in likes and dislikes, do good and bad stuff, get the results, and get reborn. But a wise person knows the Kshetrajna, the knower, the Self, is different from the body. They don't get caught up in likes and dislikes. They're one with the pure, eternal, Absolute, Supreme Self. They're always happy and chill, even if they're doing stuff for people. It's like, Timira, that eye disease that makes you see stuff wrong, is in the eye, not the person seeing. Fix the eye, and you see clearly. Ignorance, doubt, pleasure, pain, good, bad, likes, dislikes, and all that stuff are in the mind, not in the silent witness, the Self. When you're liberated, your mind's gone, so there's no ignorance, no likes and dislikes. If false perceptions, ignorance, pleasure, pain, doubt, and all that were part of the Self, like heat is part of fire, you could never get rid of them. But there have been enlightened people, like Sankara, Dattatreya, Jada Bharata, and Yajnavalkya, who were totally free from all that stuff. They weren't stuck in Samsara, but they knew the Self. So, the Self is always free, pure, perfect, and eternal. Ignorance is in the mind, not the Self. Ignorance from Tamas is like a veil, stopping you from knowing your true self, the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. It makes you see things wrong and creates doubt. When you know the Self, that ignorance disappears. So, that ignorance isn't part of the Self; it's in the mind. The mind is just a product of ignorance. Samsara, the cycle of life, is all because of ignorance. It only exists for people who see the world as it seems. For a liberated person, there's no Samsara. An eye disease doesn't affect the sun. Breaking a pot doesn't affect the space inside. Mirage water doesn't make the earth wet. Ignorance and its effects don't affect the pure, subtle, attributeless, formless, limbless, partless, self-luminous Kshetrajna, the Self. Ignorance doesn't touch the Self.