Gita For Daily Living Episode 513: Chapter 13, verses 17, 18 and 19
Oct 4, 2025
A deep look at the Field and the Knower from the Bhagavad Gita. Listeners hear what makes up the field and the virtues that cultivate knowledge. The lecture explores how the supreme Self appears both within beings and beyond them. Metaphors like space and buildings illustrate the indivisible yet seemingly divided nature of consciousness.
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Know The Field And The Knower
- The path to liberation requires knowing both the field (kshetra) and the knower (kshetrajna).
- Neil Bhatt explains the field includes body, elements, mind and intellect, while the knower is the all-pervading consciousness manifesting through them.
Develop The 20 Qualities For Knowledge
- Cultivate the 20 qualities (from humility to tattva-jnana) as the practical means toward knowing the knower.
- Neil lists ammanitvam through tattva-jnana as the actionable virtues termed jnana.
Consciousness Is Like Space
- The supreme consciousness is subtler than sense perception, so it appears inside beings yet actually pervades everything.
- Neil uses the space-in-room analogy: room appears to contain space, but space is indivisible and prior to the room.