What does the Gita’s chp 13 title ‘Nature, enjoyer and consciousness’ refer to?

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focused what do nature enjoy and consciousness refer to in the Gita’s 13th chapter answer they basically refer to nature prakriti enjoy refers to supreme lord and consciousness refers to soul basically there are six topics which Arjuna asks about so prakriti purusham chaiva kshetra kshetra gaya vevacha etadvedit vichami jnanam jayam jakeshava this 13.1 now here prakriti is nature now purusha can translate as enjoyer so that can refer to either of them but in the Bhagavad Gita talks about two kinds of enjoyers purusha who is bound in material nature 13.22 and purusha who is overseeing material nature puruspara 13.23 so that’s how the word purusha prakriti are understood then jnana and jnana and jnana jnana jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and and and and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana and jnana So, this clearly delineates the three Tadda Tattvatraya, the Jagat, Jeeva and Jagdish which are delineated in the Upanishads and which I talked about in this particular chapter of the Gita Upanishad. So, Prabhupada focuses primarily on clearly differentiating what are the concepts that he talked about which cannot be, which is not always very clear if we just go to the Sanskrit terminology because Purusha and Kshetragya are bivalent terms.
They have to, they can refer to two different things, the soul or the super soul. So, Prabhupada’s nomenclature which differentiates the enjoyer and consciousness. Now at one level we could say that the Jeeva is also the enjoyer but the Jeeva is the subordinate enjoyer, not an independent enjoyer and the super soul is also conscious but here the point is that consciousness in and of itself as contrasted with nature which is unconscious that is the characteristic of the living entity.
And enjoyment that is the defining characteristic of the Supreme Lord, Ananmayobhyasa. So, in that way nature, consciousness and enjoyer refer to Jagat, Jeeva and Jagdish. The material nature, the living entity and the Supreme Lord.