Chapter 13 - Verse 33

The Self illumines all.

Moreover,

यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः ।
क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत ॥ ३३ ॥

yathā prakāśayatyekaḥ kṛtsnaṃ lokamimaṃ raviḥ .
kṣetraṃ kṣetrī tathā kṛtsnaṃ prakāśayati bhārata .. 33 ..


As the one sun illumines all this world, so does the embodied One, O Bharata, illumines all bodies.
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The embodied one (Kshetrin), the Supreme Self (Paramātman), is one and illumines all bodies, the whole material being (Kṣetra), from the Avyakta (the unmanifested material cause of the universe) down to the unmoving objects, from the ‘Great Elements’ down to ‘firmness’ (xiii. 5-6.—The illustration by means of the sun serves here a double purpose with reference to the Self,—showing that, like the sun, the Self is One only in all bodies, and that like the sun He is unsoiled.

The doctrine summed up.

The teaching of the whole discourse is concluded as follows :