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CHAPTER XIV.
[In Chapter XIII, the doctrine of the Body and the Atman. has been expounded, once from the point of view of Vedanta and again from the point of view of Samkhya philosophy; and it has been stated there that the entire activity is of the Prakrti, and that the Purusa, that is, the kṣetrajña is apathetic. But, it has not been explained in what way this activity of Prakṛti continues going. Therefore, the Blessed Lord explains in this chapter how diverse forms of creation. and especially of the living creation, are created from one and the same Prakrti. If one considers only the human creation, then, as this subject deals with the kṣetra, that is to say, with the Body, it can be easily included in the Consideration of the Body and the Atman. But, as the immoveable world is also an expansion of the three-constituented Prakṛti, the exposition of the difference in the constituents of Prakṛti can also form part of the Consideration of the Mutable and the Immutable. The Blessed Lord has, therefore, given up a restricted description as 'Consideration of the Body and the Atman', and started this chapter saying that He would explain to Arjuna in further detail the Jñana (Spiritual Knowledge) and Vijñāna (Empirical Knowledge) which He had commenced to explain in Chapter VII. The reader is referred to the exhaustive explanation of this subject-matter, which has been given in Chapter VIII of the Gita-Rahasya. This description of the diffusion or spreading-out of the three constituents of Prakrti has also been given in the Anugītā and in Chapter XII of the Manu-Smrti.]
The Blessed Lord said :-(1) Once more am I going to tell you the best knowledge of all Knowledge, by knowing which all sages have reached the highest state from this
