समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम् ।
विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति ।। १३.२७ ।।

समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् ।
न हिनस्त्यात्मनात्मानं ततो याति परां गतिम् ।। १३.२८ ।।

samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṁ parameśvaram |
vinaśyatsv-avinaśyantaṁ yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati || 13.27 ||

samaṁ paśyan-hi sarvatra samavasthitam-īśvaram |
na hinasty-ātmanātmānaṁ tato yāti parāṁ gatim || 13.28 ||

Krishna’s call is for an unconditional transcendence of all plural notions and getting focussed on Oneness. That alone will refine and sublimate the mind to facilitate benevolent interactions in the world. Anything contrary is not acceptable.

The supreme Lord is established in all beings equally. He is the real Seer who ceaselessly perceives this imperishable Reality in all perishable things around.

Perceiving the supreme Reality everywhere and in all alike, such a one does not destroy the Self by the self, and hence attains the supreme spiritual state.

The entire discussion on kshetra and kshetrajna aims at facilitating interactions, removing all contradictions and afflictions from them. When analyzed properly, mind’s distress is grief and intelligence’s is ignorance or delusion. The sole purpose of spiritual Wisdom is to redress both and make one a sthita-prajna and sthita-dhi.

The usual notes of social morality, ethics, with their allied disciplines and restraints, are incomplete or inadequate for fulfilling man’s spiritual aspirations. They are limited in their scope, generating and preserving a strong note of partiality or duality. To safeguard against such constraints and lead the mind to its full expanse, making interactions broad and widely benevolent, spiritual enquiry and introspection are indispensable. They alone can dissolve and bestow clarity and expansion.

Each sense has its limited role of revealing a specific aspect of objects. Thus eyes can reveal only colours and shapes, ears decipher the sounds, and so on. By this, the senses only implant differences, giving rise to various constrictions. To raise the mind from this differential vision and the consequent plural muddle, a higher agency is necessary. Thus comes the intelligence with its distinct power to act on the mind. To employ the intelligence for this subtle mission of refining the mind and clear its plural trap, it must first of all be made to investigate into the sensory plight. To help and guide the process is the introspection about the jneya (The One to be known), the Subject, as Krishna explains. Herein lies the salvation.

Viewed by the senses, everything in the world is perishable. The atom is perishable, the earth and the other heavenly bodies are also alike. Can the perishables by themselves exist for long? Naturally they must surely have something to make them abide. Krishna says it is the Imperishable content that sustains their perishability. He calls the Imperishable the supreme Reality. It is the omnipresence of the Supreme that makes the perishable world exist.

Any perishable existence must instantly drive us to think of an Imperishable essence or substratum. As the senses bring the notion of the perishables to the mind, so too should the intelligence reflect the Imperishable interpenetrating all of them. The sensory report and inner perception thus complement each other, making a beautiful alliance, assuaging the mind and showering peace and harmony.

How such a harmonious duo helps ease and facilitate interactions with the world is what Krishna discusses mostly throughout the dialogue.

The Knower, perceiving supreme Reality as equally present in all, neither hurts anyone nor gets hurt by anyone. Thoughts and imaginations of duality and plurality, along with their resultant conflicts drop from the mind. Such an enlightened one ascends to the supreme Spiritual Beatitude.

In describing the sthita-prajna and sthita-dhi, did not Krishna state: apuryamanam acala-pratishtham (2.70), followed by vihaya kaman yah sarvan pumamscarati..... (2.71)? What about the message on the Knower of Truth being freed of his sanga and living freely (3.27-28)? Verses 3.18 – 3.23 picture the lofty state of expansion and freedom the mind of a Knower reaches.

As spirituality gets more and more established, the interactions become easy and natural. In fact, this interactional message is what the dialogue has been highlighting throughout.