Bhagavad Gita 13.3
तत्क्षेत्रं यच्च यादृक्च यद्विकारि यतश्च यत्। स च यो यत्प्रभावश्च तत्समासेन मे शृणु॥
tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca yad-vikāri yataś ca yat sa ca yo yat-prabhāvaś ca tat samāsena me śṛṇu
Translation
What that field is and of what nature, what its modifications and from what cause, and who he is and what his power, hear that from me briefly.
Reflection
Try naming three parts of your present state instead of summarizing your day.
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Thirteen
A teacher about to give a list announces the list. What the field is made of, how it changes, where it comes from. Who the knower is, what power he carries. The verse signals method. Not poetry first, inventory first. Krishna will name parts before drawing meaning. There is something steadying about this. The mystic does not get to skip taxonomy. Even the highest teaching builds on a clean enumeration of what is being discussed. When a tradition seems vague, this is often the antidote: ask for the list. Hear briefly here means a compressed key, not a casual summary.