SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 13 Text 6-7
maha-bhutany ahankaro
buddhir avyaktam eva ca
indriyani dasaikam ca
panca cendriya-gocarah

iccha dvesah sukham duhkham
sanghatas cetana dhrtih
etat ksetram samasena
sa-vikaram udahrtam

maha-bhutani--the great elements; ahankarah--false ego; buddhih--intelligence; avyaktam--the unmanifested; eva--certainly; ca--also; indriyani--the senses; dasa-ekam--eleven; ca--also; panca--five; ca--also; indriya-go-carah--the objects of the senses; iccha--desire; dvesah--hatred; sukham--happiness; duhkham--distress; sanghatah--the aggregate; cetana--living symptoms; dhrtih--conviction; etat--all this; ksetram--the field of activities; samasena--in summary; sa-vikaram--with interactions; udahrtam--exemplified.

TRANSLATION

The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses and the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions--all these are considered, in summary, to be the field of activities and its interactions.

JOURNAL:

In his purport Srila Prabhupada gives a short breakdown of these elements of the field of activities. He then goes on to say; The body is the representation of all these factors, and there are changes of the body, which are six in number: the body is born, it grows, it stays, it produces by-products, then it begins to decay, and at the last stage it vanishes. Therefore the field is a nonpermanent material thing. However, the ksetra-jna, the knower of the field, its proprietor, is different.

So, even though God can be seen in nature, nature is not God.