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Bhagavad Gita 13.2

क्षेत्रज्ञं चापि मां विद्धि सर्वक्षेत्रेषु भारत।क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोर्ज्ञानं यत्तज्ज्ञानं मतं मम॥

kṣetrajñaṃ cāpi māṃ viddhi sarvakṣetreṣu bhārata |kṣetrakṣetrajñayorjñānaṃ yattajjñānaṃ mataṃ mama ||

Do thou also know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both the field and the knower of the field is considered by Me to be the knowledge.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

I am the omniscient Self that abides in the realm of matter; knowledge of matter and of the all-knowing Self is wisdom.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.