As the sun alone illumines this entire world,
So the Lord of the Field illumines the entire field, O Descendent of Bharata.
Here is an insightful verse from that most wonderful of books, the Bhagavad Gita.
The field is called ‘kshetra’, and the ‘Lord of the Field’ is ‘Kshetra-jnā’ – the Knower of the Field.
What is the ‘field’?
The ‘field’ refers to all possible dimensions that are potentially open to human experience during the long evolutionary process.
The lowest experiential ‘field’ is the physical dimension, and the physical body is the instrument/vehicle used for a wide range of experience in this ‘field’ of the physical.
A more subtle ‘field’ is the astral dimension, and the emotional body is the instrument/vehicle used in this field for a different range of experience.
Beyond these two is the ‘field’ of mind which is more subtle than the previous two. The lower mind is the instrument/vehicle used for thoughtform building. When trained properly, it creates a powerful medium of expression in the ‘field’ of thought.
These three great dimensions comprise the ‘field’ of the human personality. To navigate consciousness effectively within these fields requires right knowledge, understanding and discipline of the three vehicles. In time and through due process, integration of the three is achieved and there is then the possibility to explore further afield.
To navigate towards higher fields of experience requires a steady and careful development of the embryo higher bodies, which in time will partake of the substances of these fields, just as the three lower bodies partake of the substances of the three lower dimensions. The gradual development of the higher vehicles of consciousness within the higher fields constitutes the upward spiritual path of the evolutionary process.
Who then is the ‘Lord of the Fields?
This is the Silent Observer veiled by the vehicles and the substances of the fields, yet illuminating all as the sun illumines the world. It reveals in progressive steps the vast fields of consciousness in which It dwells. It is the Knower of the Fields.
For those who step beyond the ring-pass-not of the lower fields, there is a growing awareness of another Field, that of the Soul, which is more splendid and magnificent than the three below.
Through mind control the Lord of the Field learns to grip and hold steady the mental processes, and learns to regard the mind (the bridge between the higher and the lower fields) as the interpreter of the fields, as the transmitter of the higher to the lower, and as the window through which the Silent Observer looks out upon vast and (to the majority) unknown fields of knowledge.
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