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FIELDA symbol of the lower nature; the arena within which the soul's evolution takes place. "The great elements (earth, etc.), egoism (self-consciousness), the understanding, the unperceived also, the ten senses, and the one (mind) and the five objects of sense, desire, aversion, consciousness, pleasure, pain, body, courage, thus in brief has been declared the Kshetra with changes (development)." - Bhagavad-gita, Ch. XIII. The Kshetra, or field, is the arena in its largest sense of organism and environment of the soul's evolution. It includes all the planes of manifestation below atma, though the present lower nature below the buddhic is more especially indicated. The mental faculties, the emotions, the desires, passions, and sensations in all their varieties are the means of soul-development. "The field is the world.”—Mat. xiii. 38 The "world” signifies the lower nature of the soul, in which the germs of higher qualities (seed) are sown by the Spirit. "This human frame, O Earth! is called 'field.' He who knows (how to enter and how to leave) it is denominated by those conversant with the subject, the Knower of the field' (i.e. Self or Soul). Those striving after final emancipation must constantly seek to understand the field' and to obtain a knowledge of the Knower of the field.' Institutes of Vishnu, Ch. XCVI. 97, 98. The human organism on the lower planes is the field of experience. To know it all is to rise above it and become one with the Higher Self. The human organism comprises the four vehicles of the soul on the four planes of nature; i.e. the causal, mental, astral, and physical human bodies. It is through these bodies that the indwelling spiritual ego must manifest his nature, and he can only do so by fully understanding and controlling them. When he has mastered the lower qualities, he has developed the higher, and the consciousness rises to the higher planes and to union with the Higher Self. |
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