--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willytex@...> wrote: > > > > > > Arjuna didn't actually reach enlightenment on > > > a 'field' in Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra is a > > > Sanskrit word being the "field of the body" or > > > "the field of action"... > > > > cardemaister: > > Well, hmmm, it's true that 'kuru' (yogasthaH > > *kuru* karmaaNi!) is the 2nd person sg. imperative > > form from the root 'kR', but seems highly unlikely > > that it could be a part of a tatpuruSa-samaasa, > > meaning 'action'. > > > The city (shetra) on the Saraswati River (Sarovar), > after King Kuru (kuru), the ancestor of Kauravas > and Pandavas.
*Kshetra* (field) a term of Yoga to denote nature and/or the body-mind. The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga/Feuerstein *Kshetra-jna* The field knower. (The jiva/self) The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga/Feuerstein Kurushetra (Kuru, from the Sanskrit root kri, "work, material action" and shetra, "field", this "field of action" is the human body with its physical, mental, and soul faculties, the field on which all activities of one's life take place. Swami Yogananda Gita 1:1 more? see Swami Yogananda on the Bhagavad Gita.
