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from false ego, who is equal in both happiness and distress, who is tolerant, always satisfied, self-controlled, and
engaged in devotional service with determination, his mind and intelligence fixed on Me -- such a devotee of Mine
is very dear to Me.
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He for whom no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anyone, who is equipoised in happiness and
distress, fear and anxiety, is very dear to Me.
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My devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free
from all pains, and not striving for some result, is very dear to Me.
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One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and
inauspicious things -- such a devotee is very dear to Me.
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One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and
distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with
anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and who is engaged in devotional service
-- such a person is very dear to Me.
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Those who follow this imperishable path of devotional service and who completely engage themselves with faith,
making Me the supreme goal, are very, very dear to Me.
Bhakti Yog
Kshetra-Kshetragya Vibhag Yog
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Arjuna said: O my dear Krishna, I wish to know about prakrti [nature], purusa [the enjoyer], and the field and the
knower of the field, and of knowledge and the object of knowledge.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: This body, O son of Kunti, is called the field, and one who knows this
body is called the knower of the field.
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O scion of Bharata, you should understand that I am also the knower in all bodies, and to understand this body and
its knower is called knowledge. That is My opinion.
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Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are,
whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are.
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That knowledge of the field of activities and of the knower of activities is described by various sages in various
Vedic writings. It is especially presented in Vedanta-sutra with all reasoning as to cause and effect.
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The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses and the mind, the five sense
objects, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions -- all these are
considered, in summary, to be the field of activities and its interactions.
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Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness;
steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of
the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and
the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to
live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization;
and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth -- all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever
there may be is ignorance.
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I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. Brahman, the spirit, beginningless and
subordinate to Me, lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world.
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Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes, heads and faces, and He has ears everywhere. In this way the
Supersoul exists, pervading everything.
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The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the
maintainer of all living beings. He transcends the modes of nature, and at the same time He is the master of all the
modes of material nature.
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The Supreme Truth exists outside and inside of all living beings, the moving and the nonmoving. Because He is
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subtle, He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far away, He is also near to
all.
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Although the Supersoul appears to be divided among all beings, He is never divided. He is situated as one.
Although He is the maintainer of every living entity, it is to be understood that He devours and develops all.
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He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is
knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, and He is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone's heart.
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Thus the field of activities [the body], knowledge and the knowable have been summarily described by Me. Only
My devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain to My nature.
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Material nature and the living entities should be understood to be beginningless. Their transformations and the
modes of matter are products of material nature.
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Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various
sufferings and enjoyments in this world.
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The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to
his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species.
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Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as
the overseer and permitter, and who is known as the Supersoul.
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