मद्भक्त एतद्विज्ञाय मद्भावायोपपद्यते ॥ १८ ॥
iti kṣetraṃ tathā jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ coktaṃ samāsataḥ .
madbhakta etadvijñāya madbhāvāyopapadyate .. 18 ..
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Thus the Kṣetra, described above (xiii. 5-6), beginning with the ‘Great elements’ and ending with ‘firmness;’ knowledge, comprising the attributes which have been enumerated, beginning with ‘humility’ and ending with ‘perception of the end of the knowledge of truth’ (xiii. 7-11); and the Knowable, described in xiii. 12-17;—these have been set forth in brief.
Such, indeed, is the whole doctrine, the doctrine of the Vedas and the doctrine of the Gītā, taught in brief.
(Question) :—Who is fit to attain this right knowledge?
(Answer) :—He who is devoted to Me, who regards Me—Vasudeva, the Supreme Lord, the Omniscient, the Supreme Guru—as the Self (Soul, Essence) of everything, i.e., he who is possessed (as it were) with the idea that all that he sees or hears or touches is nothing but the Lord, Vasudeva. Thus devoted to Me, and having attained the right knowledge described above, he is fit to attain to My state, i.e., he attains moksha.
Prakriti and Purusha are eternal.
In the seventh discourse were described two Prakṛtis, the superior and the inferior, corresponding to Kṣetra and
Kṣetrajña; and it was said that they are the womb of all creatures (vii. 6).—It may now be asked, how can it be said that the two Prakṛtis, Kṣetra and Kṣetrajña, are the womb of all beings?—This question will now be answered :