13.19 So it has been told Krishna speaks
इति क्षेत्रं तथा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं चोक्तं समासतः
मद्भक्त एतद्विज्ञाय मद्भावायोपपद्यते
iti kṣhetraṁ tathā jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ choktaṁ samāsataḥ
mad-bhakta etad vijñāya mad-bhāvāyopapadyate
So the field, and knowledge, and what is to be known, have been told in brief. My devotee, understanding this, comes to my own state.
Explanation
The summary, and a small word doing a lot.
Field, knowledge, and what is to be known, told in brief. My devotee, understanding this, comes to my own state.
Note who is addressed. After the most abstract stretch in the book, the person who arrives is the devotee — not the analyst — which is the same handover chapter 14 makes at its end.
Word by word
- iti
- thus
- kṣhetram
- the nature of the field
- tathā
- and
- jñānam
- the meaning of knowledge
- jñeyam
- the object of knowledge
- cha
- and
- uktam
- revealed
- samāsataḥ
- in summary
- mat-bhaktaḥ
- my devotee
- etat
- this
- vijñāya
- having understood
- mat-bhāvāya
- my divine nature
- upapadyate
- attain
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