13.2 Idam shareeram kaunteya

श्रीभगवानुवाच

१३.२  इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते!

एतद्यो वेत्ति तं प्राहुः क्षेत्रग्न इति तद्विदः !!

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

13.2 Idam shareeram kaunteya kshetramityabhidheeyate;
Etadyo vetti tam praahuh kshetrajna iti tadvidah.

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha — the Personality of Godhead said;

idam — this;

shareeram – body;

kaunteya — o son of Kuntî;

kshetram — the field;

iti — thus;

abhidheeyate — is called;

etat — this;

yah — one who;

vetti — knows;

tam — he;

praahuh – is called;

kshetra-jna – the knower of the field;

iti — thus;

tat-vidah — by those who know this.

Meaning: This body, O Arjuna, is called the Field; he who knows it is called the Knower of the Field by those who know of them, that is, by the sages.

Musings: This brings to my mind an observation I have read about. When we are driving, we cross an old friend of us in the opposite lane. But you may not "see" him. He is very much in the angle of ur vision. On the retina of the eye, that image of the friend is very much there. But still u don't "see" him bcos, the brain has not processed that part of the image. Who is that someone who told the brain what to process and what not? Given that brain is just a mesh network of nerves that carries data and stimulation, who is that one, who is taking the input processing and analyzing? Who is THAT who is actually "seeing" ??

To quote from one of my prev posts

When you are sleeping, a very good, sound sleep, you dont know you are sleeping! Isnt it? when u r in deep sleep you dont know of anything that happens around you or to some extent even anything that happens to you. But how is it that you “know” you slept well when you get up? When you get up you say “I slept well” who is telling you that “you slept well”? Sometimes when you are in deep sleep and someone wakes you up suddenly, you are disoriented…you are like “where am i” you look at the person who woke u up and think “who is this”. Thats only for a fleeting second and then everything is reloaded into your “brain”/mind/intellect. There is sth like the boot file that is started and the processor of the brain is loaded and up again. Who is THAT who runs the boot file when we wake up? THAT was not sleeping…isnt it, if so it would be infinite loop of sleep and sleep with no one to wake up the body. Someone is still watchful when “we”are in the deep and dreamless sleep waiting to catch an interrupt and boot the system. who is THAT?!?