11. Constant application to spiritual knowledge, understanding of the end of true knowledge: this is declared to be knowledge, and what is opposed to it is ignorance.
12. I shall describe that which has to be known, knowing which one attains to immortality, the beginningless Supreme Brahman. It is called neither being nor non-being.
13. With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, with ears everywhere in the universe,--That exists pervading all.
14. Shining by the functions of all the
senses, yet without the senses; Absolute, yet sustaining all; devoid of Gunas, yet their experiencer.
15. Without and within (all) beings; the unmoving and also the moving; because of Its subtlety incomprehensible; It is far and near.
16. Impartible, yet It exists as if divided in beings: It is to be known as
sustaining beings; and devouring, as well as generating (them).
17. The Light even of lights, It is said to be beyond darkness; Knowledge, and the One Thing to be known, the Goal of' knowledge, dwelling in the hearts of all.
18. Thus Kshetra, knowledge, and that which has to be known, have been briefly stated. Knowing this, My devotee is fitted for My state.
19. Know thou that Prakriti and Purusha are both beginningless; and know thou also that all modifications and Gunas are born of Prakriti.
20. In the production of the body and the senses, Prakriti is said to be the cause; in the experience of pleasure and pain, Purusha is said to be the cause.
21. Purusha seated in Prakriti, experiences the Gunas born of Prakriti; the reason of his birth in good and evil wombs is his attachment to the Gunas.
22. And the Supreme Purusha in this body is also called the Looker-on, the Permitter, the Supporter, the Experiencer, the Great Lord, and the Highest Self.
23. He who thus knows the Purusha and Prakriti together with the Gunas, whatever his life, is not born again.
24. Some by meditation behold the Self in their own intelligence by the purified heart, others by the path of knowledge, others again by Karma Yoga.
25. Others again not knowing thus, worship as they have heard from others.
[paragraph continues] Even these go beyond death, regarding what they have heard as the Supreme Refuge.
26. Whatever being is born, the moving or the unmoving, O bull of the Bharatas, know it to be from the union of Kshetra and Kshetrajna.
27. He sees, who sees the Lord Supreme, existing equally in all beings, deathless in the dying.
28. Since seeing the Lord equally existent everywhere, he injures not Self by self, and so goes to the highest Goal.
29. He sees, who sees that all actions are done by Prakriti alone and that the Self is actionless.
30. When he sees the separate existence of all beings inherent in the One, and their expansion from That (One) alone, he then becomes Brahman.