BG 13.1
श्रीभगवानुवाच
इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते ।
एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ॥
इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते ।
एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रज्ञ इति तद्विदः ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate
etad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ kṣetra-jña iti tad-vidaḥ
idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate
etad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ kṣetra-jña iti tad-vidaḥ
Word-for-word meanings
śrī-bhagavān uvāca — Śrī Bhagavān said; idam — this; śarīram — body; kaunteya — O son of Kuntī; abhidhīyate — is called; kṣetram iti — “the field; ” yaḥ — [and] the one who; vetti — knows; etat — it; tam — he; prāhuḥ — is called; kṣetra-jñaḥ iti — “the knower of the field; ” tat-vidaḥ — by those who have directly intuited both the field and its knower.
Translation
Śrī Bhagavān said: This body, O son of Kuntī, is called the field (kṣetra), and the one who knows it is called the knower of the field (kṣetrajña) by those who have directly intuited both the field and its knower.