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Chapter 14
Link:- In the preceding verse, there was description of the birth of all beings, in totality. Now, He describes the birth of all beings individually, in the next verse.
sarvayonisu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah
tasam brahma mahadyoniraharh bijapradah pita
Of all the bodies that take birth from different wombs, this Primordial Matter (Brahma or Prakrti) is the Mother, while I am the seed-giving, Father. 4
Comment:-
Sarvayonipt kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yiih:- All beings born from a womb, such as men and animals etc., born from eggs, such as birds and snakes etc., born from sweat, such as louse etc., and sprouting forth from the earth, such as plants and vegetation etc., having different shapes and of different species, including the gods, manes, devils, ghosts and other evil spirits etc., are included, in the term 'Sarvayonisu murtayah', (all the species).
A poet, has rightly said, that a turban, luck, speech, personal nature, shape, sound, thoughts and writing, are not similar, even of two persons. In eighty-four lac species, so many beings since eternity have taken birth, but their shapes are different from one another.
Tasam brahma mahadyonirahath btjapradah pita:- The primordial Matter, is the Mother of all beings, that take birth from different sources, as mentioned above, while God is the seed-giving father. The bodies, of different colours and shapes, are constituted of matter, while the spirit dwelling in them, is a portion of the Lord. The Lord Himself, declares, "Know Myself to be the Ksetrajna (Spirit), in all the Ksetras (bodies)" (Gita 13/2). This can be clarified, by giving an illustration of a piece of cloth, which is wet. In the piece of cloth there are many minute holes.
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