Bhagavad Gita/Learning paths/The Nature of the Self

The Nature of the Self

Chapter 13's distinction between the Field that acts and the Knower that only witnesses, and chapter 15's Purushottama — the highest self standing beyond both the perishable and the imperishable.

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BG 13.2

This body, son of Kuntî, is called the Field; that which knoweth it is called the Knower of the Field by the Sages.

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BG 13.3

Understand Me as the Knower of the Field in all Fields, O Bhârata. Wisdom as to the Field and the Knower of the Field, that in My opinion is the wisdom.

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BG 13.30

He who seeth that Matter verily performeth all actions, and that the Self is actionless, he seeth.

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BG 15.16

There are two Energies in this world, the destructible and the indestructible; the destructible is all beings, the unchanging is called the indestructible.

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BG 15.18

Since I excel the destructible, and am more excellent also than the indestructible, in the world and in the Veda I am proclaimed the Supreme Spirit.