He who, by the eye of knowledge, knows, in the manner shown, the difference, the mutual unlikeness, between the field and the field-knower as they have been explained, the eye being the knowledge born of the favour, the teaching, of scripture and teacher, a knowledge that rests on one's own awareness; and who knows the release of the Nature of beings, the Nature of beings being the ignorance-marked, the unmanifest, and its release being its going to non-being: they, knowing this, go to the supreme, the supreme-Self truth, Brahman; they do not take on a body again. Thus ends the thirteenth chapter in the commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā composed by the most reverend Śaṅkara the Blessed, pupil of the most reverend Govinda the Blessed whose feet are worthy of worship, the venerable wandering ascetic of the supreme order.

The Lord concludes the meaning of the chapter, in 'of the field and the field-knower'. Those who, in the manner described, know, with the eye marked by the knowledge of discernment, the difference, the distinction, between the field and the field-knower; and likewise this nature of beings that has been told, and the release from it, and the means of release, meditation and the rest; they go to the supreme abode.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

The means of release from the beings and from prakriti is 'absence of conceit' and the rest (13.8).