Bhagavad Gita: Nature, Person and Consciousness

Bhagavad Gita: Nature, Person and Consciousness – chap.13

Arjuna asks to Krishna: what are nature, person, field and knower of the field?

Krishna says –

Five elements, ego, intellect, and the unmanifest cause (maya). Ten Indriyas and the mind; five sense objects – these are all called the field of the karma.

Five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.

Ten Indriyas: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, and – voice, feet, hands, reproductive organ and excretion part.

Five sense objects: smells, taste, visual, sound and touch.

Kindness, absence of superciliousness, non-violence, simplicity, going to a true Guru, purity, steadiness, self-control, dispassion to sense objects, egolessness, feeling clearly the problems lie in birth, death, old age, disease and sorrow. Detachment; absence of affection for son/daughter, wife and house etc., persistent and consistent connection to God, desire for quiet place and absence of longing for company of people. Understanding the importance of self realization and search for truth. – This is the real knowledge, and which doesn’t connect to the source is false knowledge.

One, who sees that all the karmas are done by the body, which is originated from the nature and, soul/consciousness doesn’t do anything – s/he sees in reality.

When a wise person doesn’t discriminate among physical bodies and sees a soul/consciousness is spread everywhere, s/he sees in totality; then, that person gets the realization.

While living in physical body the soul neither does anything nor attaches with the body.

As the Sun gives light to the world, same way – a soul illuminates the body thru consciousness.

The people, who know the difference between the body and the knower of the body, and know the ways to get the self realization, they get the enlightenment.