The impersonalists say that the word ‘ca’ in the verse (13.3) kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ, means ‘He who is the knower within the body is also (ca) me. i.e., the soul is the same as the Supersoul’. Taking the identity of the knower of the field previously defined as the jīva with the Lord, by grammatical identity of case (kṣetra-jñam = mām) the meaning would be: know that the knower of the field (jīva) is I. They say that when the Lord says “Know that I am the knower of all fields,” it means “Know that I am the jīva.
The impersonalists say that the word ‘ca’ in the verse (13.3) kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ, means ‘He who is the knower within the body is also (ca) me. i.e., the soul is the same as the Supersoul’. Taking the identity of the knower of the field previously defined as the jīva with the Lord, by grammatical identity of case (kṣetra-jñam = mām) the meaning would be: know that the knower of the field (jīva) is I. They say that when the Lord says “Know that I am the knower of all fields,” it means “Know that I am the jīva. The jīva and the Lord are the same.” Even the Supreme Lord, by ignorance, takes Himself to be a knower of the field, a jīva, just as a person in error takes a rope to be a snake. In order to dispel that illusion of being a mere jīva, this statement of oneness is made by the Lord, the highest authority of truth. By the statement “I, Supreme Brahman, am the jīva” the error of thinking Himself to be individual jīva (different from other jīvas and the Lord) is destroyed, just as illusion of a snake is destroyed by saying “this rope is not a snake.”