Kṣetrajña
“the field-knower”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
kṣetrajña · the knower of the field
in the texts
Paramārthasāra
The field-knower, the embodied conscious self, whose multiplicity is explained as arising from one source.
From the one {{kṣetrajña|the field-knower, the embodied conscious self}} the many classes of field-knowers are born, as from a fire that has entered iron [come] showers of sparks on every side.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The 'field-knower' (kṣetrajña), i.e. the individual puruṣa as knower of the body/field, whose discrimination from the field the Gītā declares to be liberating.
"Together with those effects and causes arisen from his body, the {{kṣetrajña|field-knowers}} were born from the limbs of that wise one.
] "Those who thus know, with the eye of knowledge, the difference between the field and the {{kṣetrajña|knower of the field}}, and the liberation of beings from prakṛti—they go to the supreme.