Shloka 7
Mind as Charioteer; Kṣetrajña, Tapas, and Dhyāna-Yoga
Adhyātma-Upadeśa
अतः: पर प्रवक्ष्यामि सच्त्वक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्यथा । संयोगो विप्रयोगश्न तन्निबोधत सत्तमा:
ataḥ paraṁ pravakṣyāmi sattva-kṣetrajñayor yathā | saṁyogo viprayogaś ca tan nibodhata sattamāḥ śreṣṭha-maharṣayaḥ ||
因此，我现在将依次开示：生命之性（sattva）与“知田者”（kṣetrajña）如何相合，又如何分离。诸位德行之最上者、诸位大圣仙之翘楚，请专心谛听此教——因为它关乎引导正行与内在解脱的明悟。
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
Vāyudeva introduces an explanation of how the conscious knower (kṣetrajña) becomes associated with the principle of embodied experience (sattva) and how that association ceases—an inquiry meant to support discernment, ethical steadiness, and release from confusion about self and experience.
Vāyudeva addresses an audience of eminent seers, signaling a formal instruction: he is about to expound a doctrinal account of union and separation between sattva and kṣetrajña, asking them to listen with focused attention.