Gita Bhashya -Sankara 294

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -7

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Etad-yonīni bhūtāni sctrvānītyupaclhāraya
A ham krtsnasya jagatah prabhavah pralayas-tdthā

6. Know that all beings have their birth in these. I am the source., and the dissolution as well, of the whole universe.

Know that all beings have their birth in these, :hat these two, My lower and My higher Prakrtis. constituting the "K.setra[1]" and the "Ksetrajfla" (respectively), are the womb of all beings. Because My two Natures (Prakrtis) are the womb, the cause, of all beings, therefore, i am the source, origin, and the dissolution, destruction, as well, of the whole universe: that is to say, I, the omniscient Iśvara, am the cause of the universe, through the two Natures.

Wherefore,

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References and Context

  1. Ksetra is the body as the field of the working of the soul. Kfc-trajñ" is the soul, and in the Gila often denotes the Realised Soul, who has the true knowledge of Ksetra. Of these much more later.