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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 - Lesson 6 of 10_English

POWERFUL COGNITION

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The understanding of the kṣetra, the illusory world created by our minds, is important in helping us to differentiate between reality and non-reality

Nithyananda portrait

प्रकृतिं पुरुषं चैव विद्धयनादी उभावपि ।
विकारांश्च गुणांश्चैव विद्धि प्रकृतिसम्भवान्
॥ १३-२० ॥

prakṛtiṁ puruṣaṁ caiva
viddhyanādī ubhāvapi vikārāṁś ca
guṇāṁś caiva viddhi prakṛti
saṁbhavān

Prakṛti or the field and its attributes and the puruṣa or the knower or the supreme consciousness are both without beginning. All the transformations of nature that we see are produced by the field or prakṛti

Feather illustration and deity portrait

POWERFUL COGNITION

It is only in the uncorrupted and pure inner space of completion that God manifests and the Divine consciousness is perceived.

Shiva illustration

कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते ।
पुरुषः सुखदुःखानां भोक्तृत्वे हेतुरुच्यते
॥ १३-२१॥

kārya-kāraṇa-kartṛtve hetuḥ
prakṛtirucyate puruṣaḥ sukha-
duḥkhānāṁ bhoktṛtve heturucyate

In the production of the body and
the senses, prakṛti is said to be the
cause; In the experience of pleasure
and pain, puruṣa is said to be the
cause

POWERFUL COGNITION

·The understanding that this world is nothing but a projection of the mind, the understanding that this is not our real identity, will put us into reality