13.34 One sun lights the world Krishna speaks
यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः
क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत
yathā prakāśhayaty ekaḥ kṛitsnaṁ lokam imaṁ raviḥ
kṣhetraṁ kṣhetrī tathā kṛitsnaṁ prakāśhayati bhārata
As one sun lights up this whole world, so the owner of the field lights up the whole field, Arjuna.
Explanation
One sun lights the whole world.
So the owner of the field lights the whole field.
Placed at the end of a chapter dense with elements, categories and contradictions, the closing image is the plainest thing in it. One source, no effort, nothing selective — and after 13.3, one sun for every field.
Going further
Word by word
- yathā
- as
- prakāśhayati
- illumines
- ekaḥ
- one
- kṛitsnam
- entire
- lokam
- solar system
- imam
- this
- raviḥ
- sun
- kṣhetram
- the body
- kṣhetrī
- the soul
- tathā
- so
- kṛitsnam
- entire
- prakāśhayati
- illumine
- bhārata
- Arjun, the son of Bharat
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As one sun lights up this whole world, so the knower lights up the whole field.
Placed at the end of a chapter dense with categories, elements and enumerations, the sun does the work that none of the lists could. It is worth noticing that the light in the image does nothing to the world it reveals — which is exactly what 13.32 said about the self in the body.