Sanskrit · Devanagari
यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः। क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
yathā prakāśayatyekaḥ kṛtsnaṃ lokamimaṃ raviḥ kṣetraṃ kṣetrī tathā kṛtsnaṃ prakāśayati bhārata
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882O son of Kuntī! though stationed in the body. As by (reason of its) subtlety the all-pervading space is not tainted so the self stationed in every body is not tainted. As the sun singly lights up all this world
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।13.34।। --,यथा प्रकाशयति अवभासयति एकः कृत्स्नं लोकम् इमं रविः सविता आदित्यः? तथा तद्वत् महाभूतादि धृत्यन्तं क्षेत्रम् एकः सन् प्रकाशयति। कः क्षेत्री परमात्मा इत्यर्थः। रविदृष्टान्तः अत्र आत्मनः उभयार्थोऽपि भवति -- रविवत् सर्वक्षेत्रेषु एक एव आत्मा? अलेपकश्च इति।।समस्ताध्यायार्थोपसंहारार्थः अयं श्लोकः --,
ae06aeaed546…Rāmānuja
13.34 As the 'one sun' illumines 'all this world' by his radiance, so the 'knower of the body' illumines the entire Ksetra, i.e., the body, by Its own knowledge, within and without and from head to toe, by conceiving 'This my body is of this nature.' This self of the said nature is totally different from the body, because It is the knower of the body. The body is the object of Its knowledge and is therefore different from It, even as the illuminating sun is totally different from the illumined world.
80c754f445de…Swami Sivananda
13.34 यथा as? प्रकाशयति illumines? एकः one? कृत्स्नम् the whole? लोकम् world? इमम् this? रविः sun? क्षेत्रम् the field? क्षेत्री the Lord of the field (Paramatma)? तथा so? कृत्स्नम् the whole? प्रकाशयति illumines? भारत O descendant of Bharata (Arjuna).Commentary The Supreme Self is one. It illumines the whole matter from the Unmanifested down to the blade of grass or a lump of clay? from the great elements down to firmness or fortitude. (Cf. verses 5 and 6.) Just as the sun is one? just as the sun illumines the whole world? just as the sun is not tainted? so also the Self is One in all bodies? It illumines all the bodies and It is not contaminated.
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