14.3 मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन् गर्भं दधाम्यहम्।संभवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत
mama yonir
Word meanings
mama—my;yoniḥ—womb;mahat brahma—the total material substance, prakṛiti;tasmin—in that;garbham—womb;dadhāmi—impregnate;aham—I;sambhavaḥ—birth;sarva-bhūtānām—of all living beings;tataḥ—thereby;bhavati—becomes;bhārata—Arjun, the son of Bharat
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The mighty Brahman is a womb for Me; and in it I lay seed; from which is the birth of all beings, O descendant of Bharata!
The eternal Cosmos is My womb, in which I plant the seed, from which all beings are born, O Prince!
My womb is the great brahman (i.e. Prakrti). In that I lay the germ. From that, O Arjuna, is the birth of all beings.
My womb is the great-sustainer. In that I place the seed. From that, O scion of the Bharata dynasty, occurs the birth of all things.
My womb is the great Brahma; in that I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all beings!
14.5 सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्
sattvaṃ rajas
Word meanings
sattvam—mode of goodness;rajaḥ—mode of passion;tamaḥ—mode of ignorance;iti—thus;guṇāḥ—modes;prakṛiti—material nature;sambhavāḥ—consists of;nibadhnanti—bind;mahā-bāho—mighty-armed one;dehe—in the body;dehinam—the embodied soul;avyayam—eternal
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The strands, namely the sattva, rajas, and tamas, born from the prime cause (the said mother), bind the changeless embodied soul to the body, O mighty-armed one!
Purity, Passion and Ignorance are the Qualities which the Law of nature bringeth forth. They fetter the free Spirit in all beings.
Sattva, Rajas and Tamas are the Gunas that arise from the Prakrti. They bind the immutable self in the body, O Arjuna.
O mighty-armed one, the qualities, viz sattva, rajas and tamas, born of Nature, being the immutable embodies being to the body.
Purity, passion and inertia–these qualities, O mighty-armed Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, the embodied, the indestructible!
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गुणत्रयविभागयोग
Chapter 14: Tell Apart the Three Gunas
guṇatrayavibhāgayoga
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14.4 सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः।तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता
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Word meanings
sarva—all;yoniṣhu—species of life;kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti;mūrtayaḥ—forms;sambhavanti—are produced;yāḥ—which;tāsām—of all of them;brahma-mahat—great material nature;yoniḥ—womb;aham—I;bīja-pradaḥ—seed-giving;pitā—Father
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O son of Kunti! Whatever manifestations spring up in all the wombs, the mighty Brahman is the womb, and I am the father who sows the seed.
O illustrious son of Kunti! Through whatever wombs men are born, it is the Spirit Itself that conceives, and I am their Father.
Whatever forms are produced in any womb, O Arjuna, the Prakrti is their great womb and I am the sowing father.
O son of Kunti, whatever forms are born from all the wombs, of them the great-sustainer is the womb; I am the father who deposits the seed.
Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their womb and I am the seed-giving father.
