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Verse 13·4

The elements and senses constitute the field

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तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत् ।स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे शृणु ॥

tatkṣetraṃ yacca yādṛkca yadvikāri yataśca yatsa ca yo yatprabhāvaśca tatsamāsena me śṛṇu

What that Field is and what are its character, nature, source, deformations, and what He is and what His powers, hear that now briefly from Me.

Gītā 13·4

We see then that it is the whole working of the lower Prakriti that is meant by the kṣetra. That totality is the field of action of the embodied spirit here within us, the field of which it takes cognizance.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · pp. 412–13

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