ABSTRACT
Chapter XIII is said by Sailkara to be mainly a Knowledge-chapter. It begins with the knowledge of the Field (body, mind, also the deep causal layer that holds them together) and the Field-knower, which is the witness-consciousness that sees and is not affected or bound by what it sees. The GIta itself states that this doctrine comes from the
Upani~ad-s: 'set out in the sl1tra-s on Brahman, well reasoned and definite.' As in many Upani~ad-s, the world is first taken as provisionally real, but ultimately with no independent existence of its own.
