Pradyumna: "I am also the knower in all bodies, and to understand this body and its owner is called knowledge. That is my opinion." (BG 13.3)
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Prabhupāda: So everyone, everyone gives his opinion. Kṛṣṇa also says opinion. So whose opinion we shall accept? If we take votes, whose opinion we shall accept? Kṛṣṇa says, mataṁ mama: "This is My opinion." Knowledge means to understand the owner of the body and the body. The body and the owner-body-not the same thing. Just like the owner of the house and the house, they're not the same thing. And knowledge means one should know what is this house and who is the owner. That is knowledge.
But they're mixing. In the modern age they are mixing the owner of the house and the house. Mixing together. And this is ignorance. They're identifying this body as self. The self is the owner of the body, and the body is different. Body is made of matter: earth, water, air, fire, ether, mind, intelligence, ego. This is the combination of the body. And the soul is different. The soul is governing the body, utilizing the body, working on the body. Therefore it is, in the beginning, it is said:
idaṁśarīraṁ kaunteya
kṣetram ity abhidhīyate
(BG 13.2)
This body is kṣetra, field of activity. Just like we are in Bombay, everyone is busy actively. So Bombay is the field of activity; you are not Bombay. If one identifies himself with this Bombay city-"I am Bombay"- this is foolishness. Bombay city is different from me, but I am working in Bombay city in different capacity. This is knowledge. Just try to understand, that people are identifying that, "I am body." This is not good.
kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi
sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata
kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānaṁ
yat taj jñānaṁ mama
(BG 13.3)
People are . . . people are very much proud of their knowledge. But Kṛṣṇa says that knowledge means kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānaṁ. Knowledge means to know the field and the actual proprietor of the field. Kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānaṁ yat taj jñānaṁ. That knowledge is real knowledge. Mataṁ mama: Kṛṣṇa is giving His opinion. Now clear it, if we identify the kṣetra and the kṣetrajñayor are two, mixed up, that is ignorance. That is not knowledge. But just try to understand, people are under the impression that "I am this body." This is not knowledge; this is ignorance.
Then He says, kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi. Yesterday we discussed the first verse, that:
idaṁśarīraṁ kaunteya
kṣetram ity abhidhīyate
(BG 13.2)
Kṣetram ity abhidhīyate. This body is the field of activities, and:
idaṁśarīraṁ kaunteya
kṣetram ity abhidhīyate
etad yo vetti
(BG 13.2)
And one who knows this:
etad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ
kṣetra-jña iti tad-vidaḥ
(BG 13.2)
One who knows perfectly that, "I am the proprietor of this body. I am utilizing this body for my purpose. The body is made of matter, and I am the spirit soul, part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa," this is perfect knowledge. This is perfect knowledge. And one who foolishly identifying that, "I am this body-I am this hand, I am this leg, I am this blood, I am this stool," he's not in knowledge. He's not in knowledge.
A combination of blood, stool, urine, muscle, bones-does it mean a spirit soul? Can you do it? There are many philosophers, they say that the combination of these bones, muscles, all the material things, produces the living energy. But why don't you do it? Eh? There are so many opportunities, so much opportunity that you can get blood also, bone also, and flesh also, urine also, stool also-why don't you manufacture a body?
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