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Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.14.03]

TEXT 3:

mama yonir mahad brahma

tasmin garbham dadhamy aham

sambhavah sarva-bhutanam

tato bhavati bharata

TRANSLATION:

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is
that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living
beings, O son of Bharata.

PURPORT:

This is an explanation of the world: everything that takes place is due to the
combination of kshetra and kshetra-jna, the body and the spirit soul. This
combination of material nature and the living entity is made possible by the
Supreme God Himself. The mahat-tattva is the total cause of the total cosmic
manifestation; and that total substance of the material cause, in which there
are three modes of nature, is sometimes called Brahman. The Supreme Personality
impregnates that total substance, and thus innumerable universes become
possible. This total material substance, the mahat-tattva, is described as
Brahman in the Vedic literature (Mundaka Upanishad 1.1.9): tasmad etad brahma
nama-rupam annam ca jayate. The Supreme Person impregnates that Brahman with
the seeds of the living entities. The twenty-four elements, beginning from
earth, water, fire and air, are all material energy, and they constitute what
is called mahad brahma, or the great Brahman, the material nature. As explained
in the Seventh Chapter, beyond this there is another, superior nature—the
living entity. Into material nature the superior nature is mixed by the will of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thereafter all living entities are born
of this material nature.

The scorpion lays its eggs in piles of rice, and sometimes it is said that the
scorpion is born out of rice. But the rice is not the cause of the scorpion.
Actually, the eggs were laid by the mother. Similarly, material nature is not
the cause of the birth of the living entities. The seed is given by the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and they only seem to come out as products of material
nature. Thus every living entity, according to his past activities, has a
different body, created by this material nature, so that the entity can enjoy
or suffer according to his past deeds. The Lord is the cause of all the
manifestations of living entities in this material world.
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Translation and commentary by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada

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Material nature seems to produce life,but Supreme Lord is the life force in everything that pervades [BG.14.03]