क्षेत्रज्ञ आत्मा पुरुष: पुराण: साक्षात्स्वयंज्योतिरज: परेश: । नारायणो भगवान् वासुदेव: स्वमाययाऽऽत्मन्यवधीयमान: ॥ १३ ॥ यथानिल: स्थावरजङ्गमाना- मात्मस्वरूपेण निविष्ट ईशेत् । एवं परो भगवान् वासुदेव: क्षेत्रज्ञ आत्मेदमनुप्रविष्ट: ॥ १४ ॥
ksetrajna atma purusah puranah saksat svayam jyotir ajah paresah narayano bhagavan vasudevah sva-mayayatmany avadhiyamanah yathanilah sthavara-jangamanam atma-svarupena nivista iset evam paro bhagavan vasudevah ksetrajna atmedam anupravistah
- ksetra-jnah
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead*
- atma
- all-pervading, present everywhere
- purusah
- the unrestricted controller, who has unlimited power
- puranah
- the original
- saksat
- perceivable by hearing from the authorities and by direct perception
- svayam
- personal
- jyotih
- manifesting His bodily rays (the Brahman effulgence)
- ajah
- never born
- paresah
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- narayanah
- the resting place of all living entities
- bhagavan
- the Personality of Godhead with six full opulences
- vasudevah
- the shelter of everything, manifested and nonmanifest
- sva-mayaya
- by His own potency
- atmani
- in His own self, or in the ordinary living entities
- avadhiyamanah
- existing as the controller
- yatha
- as much as
- anilah
- the air
- sthavara
- of nonmoving living entities
- jangamanam
- and of the moving living entities
- atma-svarupena
- by His expansion as the Supersoul
- nivistah
- entered
- iset
- controls
- evam
- thus
- parah
- transcendental
- bhagavan
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- vasudevah
- the shelter of everything
- ksetra-jnah
- known as ksetrajna
- atma
- the vital force
- idam
- this material world
- anupravistah
- entered within
There are two kinds of ksetrajna — the living entity, as explained above, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is explained as follows. He is the all-pervading cause of creation. He is full in Himself and is not dependent on others. He is perceived by hearing and direct perception. He is self-effulgent and does not experience birth, death, old age or disease. He is the controller of all the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahma. He is called Narayana, and He is the shelter of living entities after the annihilation of this material world. He is full of all opulences, and He is the resting place of everything material. He is therefore known as Vasudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His own potency, He is present within the hearts of all living entities, just as the air or vital force is within the bodies of all beings, moving and nonmoving. In this way He controls the body. In His partial feature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters all bodies and controls them.