BHAGVAD GITA CHAPTER-13

BHAGVAD GITA

Chapter 13: Creation and the Creator

Lord Krishna said: Human body and the universe may be called the field or creation of Atma. One who knows the creation is called the creator by the seers of truth. (13.01)

I am the creator of all creation, O Arjuna. The true understanding of both the creator and the creation is considered to be spiritual or metaphysical knowledge. (13.02)

What the creation is, what it is like, what its different forms and evolutions are, where the Source is, who that creator is, and what His powers are, hear all these from Me in brief. (13.03)

The sages have described Him in many ways, in various Vedic hymns, and also in other scriptures. (13.04)

The five basic elements, the ‘I’ consciousness or the feeling of independent individual existence  the intellect, the subtle Prakriti, the ten senses, the mind, and the five sense objects;(13.05)

Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the physical body, consciousness, and willpower. Thus the field (the creation or body) has been briefly described with its expansions. Human body is also a miniature universe. (13.06)

Humbleness, modesty, nonviolence, patience, honesty, service to guru; purity of thought, word, and deed; firmness, sense-control and (13.07)

Dislike for sense objects, absence of I, me and mine, constant reflection on the agony and suffering inherent in birth, old age, disease, and death. (13.08)

Detached attachment with son, wife, and home; unfailing mental balance upon attainment of the desirable and the undesirable; and (13.09)

Unshakable devotion to Me by the practice of selfless devotion, love for living alone, distaste for social gossips; and (13.10)

Sincere search for Self-knowledge, seeing the presence of God everywhere . these are said to be the means of gaining Self-knowledge. That which is contrary to this is ignorance. (13.11)

I shall fully describe the object of knowledge, knowing which one attains freedom from cycles of reincarnation. The beginningless Supreme Brahman is said to be neither Sat or real nor Asat or unreal. (13.12)

Having hands and feet everywhere; having eyes, head, and face everywhere; having ears everywhere; I, the creator, exist in the creation by pervading everything. (13.13)

He is the perceiver of all sense objects without the senses; unattached, yet the sustainer of all; unaffected by the Gunas of Nature, yet the enjoyer of the Gunas. (13.14)

He is inside as well as outside all beings . living or nonliving. He is beyond human understanding because of His subtle form. He is very near as well as far away. (13.15)

He is undivided, yet appears as if divided in beings; He, the object of knowledge, is the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of all beings. (13.16)

He is the light of all lights and beyond darkness. He is the knowledge, the object of knowledge, and seated in the hearts of all beings, He is to be realized by the Self-knowledge. (13.17)

Thus the creation as well as the knowledge and the object of knowledge have been briefly described. Understanding this, My devotee attains Me. (13.18)

Know that Prakriti and Purusha are both beginningless and endless; and also know that all expansions and Gunas arise from the Prakriti. (13.19)

The Prakriti is said to be the cause of production of physical body and organs of perception and action. The Purusha is said to be the cause of experiencing pleasures and pains. (13.20)

The Purusha associates with Prakriti and enjoys the Gunas of Prakriti. Attachment to the Gunas  is the cause of the birth of Jeevatma in good and evil wombs. (13.21)

The Supreme Spirit inside the body is also called the witness, the guide, the supporter, the enjoyer, and the great Lord or Ishvara. (13.22)

They who fully understand Purusha and Prakriti with its Gunas are not born again regardless of their mode of life. (13.23)

Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the Karma-yoga. (13.24)

Some do not understand Brahman at all. But having heard of God from others, they perform deity worship with faith and devotion. They also go beyond birth and death due to their devotion and firm faith to what they have heard. (13.25)

Whatever is born. living or non-living . know them all to be born from the Prakriti and the Purusha, O Arjuna. (13.26)

The one who sees the eternal Supreme Lord dwelling equally within all temporal beings truly sees. (13.27)

Seeing the same Lord existing in every being, one does not injure anybody or anything and thereupon attains the Supreme goal. (13.28)

Those who perceive that all works are done by the Gunas of Prakriti alone, and thus they are not the doer, they truly understand. (13.29)

When one perceives diverse variety of beings resting in One and spreading out from That alone, then one attains Brahman. (13.30)

The Supreme Self is beginningless and without Gunas of material Nature. Dwelling in the body as Jeevatma, it neither does anything nor gets affected, O Arjuna. (13.31)

As the all-pervading space is not polluted because of its subtlety, similarly the Self, seated in everybeing, is not affected. (13.32)

Just as one sun lights this entire world, similarly the creator gives life to and supports the entire creation. (13.33)

Those who understand the difference between the creation  and the creator and know the technique of liberation of Jeeva from the trap of Maya with the help of Self-knowledge, attain the Supreme. (13.34)