यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः ।क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत ॥
yathā prakāśayaty ekaḥ kṛtsnaṃ lokam imaṃ raviḥ |kṣetraṃ kṣetrī tathā kṛtsnaṃ prakāśayati bhārata ||
- यथा · yathā
- as
- प्रकाशयति · prakāśayati
- illumines
- एकः · ekaḥ
- one, alone
- कृत्स्नम् · kṛtsnam
- entire
- लोकम् इमम् · lokam imam
- this world
- रविः · raviḥ
- the sun
- क्षेत्री · kṣetrī
- the knower of the field
- भारत · bhārata
- O Bharata
“As the one sun illumines this entire world, so the knower of the field illumines the entire field, O Bharata.”
— Original plain-language translation
Consciousness is sunlight to the body's landscape: one source lighting the whole. The image returns agency to its place — the knower lights, nature moves — and prepares the closing verse on the eye of knowledge.
— Reader's notes (original)