| Arjuna. Now would I hear, O
gracious Kesava! Of Life which seems, and Soul beyond, which sees, And what it is we know- or
think to know.
Krishna. Yea! Son of Kunti! for this flesh ye see
Is Kshetra, is the field where Life disports; And that which views and knows it is the Soul,
Kshetrajna. In all "fields," thou Indian prince! I am Kshetrajna. I am
what surveys! Only that knowledge knows which knows the known By the knower! What it is, that "field" of
life, What qualities it hath, and whence it is, And why it changed,
and the faculty That wotteth it, the mightiness of this, And how it
wotteth- hear these things from Me!
The elements, the conscious life, the mind,
The unseen vital force, the nine strange gates Of the body, and the five domains of sense;
Desire, dislike, pleasure and pain, and thought Deep-woven, and persistency of being;
These all are wrought on Matter by the Soul!
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