Shloka 72
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
जलञ्च क्षिपति ब्रह्मा स तथा प्रकृतिर्विभु ।
अव्यक्तं क्षेत्रमुद्दिष्टं ब्रह्मा क्षेत्रज्ञ उच्यते ॥
jalañ ca kṣipati brahmā sa tathā prakṛtir vibhu | avyaktaṃ kṣetram uddiṣṭaṃ brahmā kṣetrajña ucyate
Assim como Brahmā rejeita a água, assim também a poderosa Prakṛti a lança para fora. O Inmanifesto (Unmanifest) é declarado ser o ‘campo’ (kṣetra); Brahmā é chamado o ‘conhecedor do campo’ (kṣetrajña).
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FAQs
Right knowledge distinguishes the field (objects/nature) from the knower (consciousness). This discrimination is the foundation for liberation-oriented understanding.
Sarga, with explicit tattva-doctrine explaining how creation relates to the knowing principle.
Identifying avyakta as kṣetra implies even subtle causality is ‘objectifiable’; the true kṣetrajña stands apart—pointing to a contemplative separation of witness from all layers.