Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 443

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-14 Guṇa-traya-vibhāg Yogaḥ

Commentary Prakrti is designated here by the name ‘the great Brahman’ because it is the cause of transformations of described in the text — 'Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and ego-sense; thus My Prakrti is divided eightfold' . In the Vedas also, Prakrti is designated as Brahman in some places, for example in Mundaka Upanishad 1:1:9 The higher Prakrti which is the aggregate of sentient Jivas, mentioned in the passage — 'Know My higher Prakrti to be distinct from this; it is the life-principle’ — is here expressed by the term ‘Garbha’ — germ, which means the source from which all living beings originate. In other words: “I lay the seed, consisting of the aggregate of sentient Jivas, in that great Mūla Prakrti, which is insentient and forms the matrix. From that conjunction between these two ‘Prakrtis’ brought about by My will, the emanation of all entities from Brahma down to a tuft of grass occurs”. sarva yoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ | tāsāṃ brahma mahad-yonir ahaṃ bīja-pradaḥ pitā || 4 || 4. Whatever beings are produced in any species, O Arjuna, the Mūla-Prakrti is their great womb and I am the seed giving father.