🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 3.14

Chapter 3 · कर्मयोग · Karma-Yoga · "The Yoga of Action" · Verse 14 of 43

अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भवः।

यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः।।3.14।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 3.14 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
3.14 All creatures are the product of food, food is the product of rain, rain comes by sacrifice, and sacrifice is the noblest form of action.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
3.14 From food come forth beings; from rain food is produced; from sacrifice arises rain and sacrifice is born of action.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
3.14 It is a matter of direct perception that annat, from food, which is eaten and is transformed into blood and semen; bhavanti, are born; bhutani, the creatures. Anna-sambhavah, the origin of food; is parjanyat, from rainfall. Parjanyah, rainfall; bhavati, originates; from yajnat, from sacrifice. This accords with the Smrti, 'The oblations properly poured into fire reaches the sun. From the sun comes rain, from rain comes food, and from the sun comes rain, from rain comes food, and from that the creatures' (Ma.Sm.3.76). (Here) sacrifice means its unie [Also termed as the unseen result (adrsta).-Tr.] result. And that sacrifice, i.e. the unie result, which arises (samudbhavah) from action (karma) undertaken by the priest and the sacrificer, is karma-samudbhavah; it has action for its origin.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
3.14 From food arise all beings; from rain food is produced. These two facts are matters of common experience. 'From sacrifice comes rain' this is known from the scriptures such as, 'The oblations offered in fire reach the sun, and from the sun comes rain' (Manu, 6.76), and sacrifice is born out of activities in the form of collecting materials, etc., by the agent. And activity arises from 'Brahman', the body born of Prakrti.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
3.14. From food arise the things that are born; from the rain-cloud the food arises; from the sacrifice the rain-cloud arises; the sacrifices arises from action;

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।3.14 -- 3.15।। सम्पूर्ण प्राणी अन्नसे उत्पन्न होते हैं। अन्न वर्षासे होती है। वर्षा यज्ञसे होती है। यज्ञ कर्मोंसे निष्पन्न होता है। कर्मोंको तू वेदसे उत्पन्न जान और वेदको अक्षरब्रह्मसे प्रकट हुआ जान। इसलिये वह सर्वव्यापी परमात्मा यज्ञ (कर्तव्य-कर्म) में नित्य प्रतिष्ठित है।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

5 received English commentary layers are available for this śloka. Open only the voice you wish to study.

Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
3.14 अन्नात् from food? भवन्ति come forth? भूतानि beings? पर्जन्यात् from rain? अन्नसम्भवः production of food? यज्ञात् from sacrifice? भवति arises? पर्जन्यः rain? यज्ञः sacrifice? कर्मसमुद्भवः born of action.Commentary Here Yajna means Apurva or the subtle principle or the unseen form which a sacrifice assumes between the time of its performance and the time when its fruits manifest themselves.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
3.14 It is a matter of direct perception that annat, from food, which is eaten and is transformed into blood and semen; bhavanti, are born; bhutani, the creatures. Anna-sambhavah, the origin of food; is parjanyat, from rainfall. Parjanyah, rainfall; bhavati, originates; from yajnat, from sacrifice. This accords with the Smrti, 'The oblations properly poured into fire reaches the sun. From the sun comes rain, from rain comes food, and from the sun comes rain, from rain comes food, and from that the creatures' (Ma.Sm.3.76). (Here) sacrifice means its unie [Also termed as the unseen result (adrsta).-Tr.] result. And that sacrifice, i.e. the unie result, which arises (samudbhavah) from action (karma) undertaken by the priest and the sacrificer, is karma-samudbhavah; it has action for its origin.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
3.14 From food arise all beings; from rain food is produced. These two facts are matters of common experience. 'From sacrifice comes rain' this is known from the scriptures such as, 'The oblations offered in fire reach the sun, and from the sun comes rain' (Manu, 6.76), and sacrifice is born out of activities in the form of collecting materials, etc., by the agent. And activity arises from 'Brahman', the body born of Prakrti.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
3.14 See Comment under 3.15
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।3.14।। No commentary.

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
3.14।। व्याख्या--'अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि'--प्राणोंको धारण करनेके लिये जो खाया जाता है, वह 'अन्न'(टिप्पणी प0 136.2) कहलाता है। जिस प्राणीका जो खाद्य है, जिसे ग्रहण करनेसे उसके शरीरकी उत्पत्ति, भरण और पुष्टि होती है, उसे ही यहाँ 'अन्न' नामसे कहा गया है; जैसे--मिट्टीका कीड़ा मिट्टी खाकर जीता है तो मिट्टी ही उसके लिये अन्न है।जरायुज (मनुष्य, पशु आदि), उद्भिज्ज (वृक्षादि), अण्डज (पक्षी, सर्प, चींटी आदि) और स्वेदज (जूँ आदि)--ये चारों प्रकारके प्राणी अन्नसे ही उत्पन्न होते हैं और उत्पन्न होकर अन्नसे ही जीवित रहते हैं (टिप्पणी प0 137.1)।

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