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एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय।

अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा।।7.6।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 7.6 · the yathārtha śloka (Devanāgarī Sanskrit · canonical)

🪷 English Translations

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Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 · public domain · Cosmo Press tradition
7.6 It is the womb of all being; for I am He by Whom the worlds were created and shall be dissolved.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
7.6 Know that these two (Natures) are the womb of all beings. So I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
7.6 Upadharaya, understand; iti, thus; that sarvani, all; bhutani, things; etat-yonini, have these (etat) as their source (yoni)-things that have these lower and higher Prakrtis, charcterized as the 'field' and the 'Knower of the field (body)', as their source are etat-yonini. Since My two Prakrtis are the source, the cause of all things, therefore, aham, I; am the prabhavah, origin; tatha, as also; the pralayah, end, the termination; krtsnasya, of the whole; jagatah, Universe. The maning is this: I, who am the ominscient God, am the source of the Univese through My two Prakrtis. Since this is so, therefore-
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
7.6 Know that all beings from Brahma down to a tuft of grass, who have their origin in these two Prakrtis of Mine, are aggregated forms of the self and of inanimate matter. Irrespective of whether they are existing in a superior or inferior form, the selves and inanimate matter are mixed together in them. On account of their origination in My two Prakrtis, they are Mine. So, know that because the entire universe has its origination in these two Prakrtis which have their origination in Me, I am myself the origin and dissolution of the entire universe. For the same reason, I am its Lord (Sesin). It is proved on the basis of the Srutis and Smrtis that these two, Prakrti and Purusa (matter and the self), which form the aggregate of all animate and inanimate beings, have the Supreme Person as their cause. This is evident from Sruti and Smrti texts like the following: 'The Mahat resolves into Avyakta, Avyakta into Aksara, Aksara into Tamas, and Tamas becomes one with the Supreme Lord' (Su. U., 2); 'O sage, distinct from the form of Visnu, the Supreme Lord, the two forms, Prakrti and Purusa, arise' (V. P., 1.2.24); and 'What was described by Me as Prakrti in its dual form of the manifest and the unmanifest, and the Purusa do merge in the Supreme Self, and the Supreme Self is the support of all. He is the Supreme Lord named Visnu, exalted in the Vedas and Vedanta' (V. P., 6.4.38-39).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
7.6. All beings are born of this womb. Hence keep [them] nearby. I am the origin as well as the dissolution of the entire world.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

For the Hindi-aware seer · Pūjya Swami Rāmsukhdās ji's translation · the highest-readability modern Hindi rendering · Gītā-Press Gorakhpur tradition.

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।।7.6।। अपरा और परा -- इन दोनों प्रकृतियोंके संयोगसे ही सम्पूर्ण प्राणी उत्पन्न होते हैं, ऐसा तुम समझो। मैं सम्पूर्ण जगत् का प्रभव तथा प्रलय हूँ।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
7.6 एतद्योनीनि those of which these two (Prakritis) are the womb? भूतानि beings? सर्वाणि all? इति thus? उपधारय know? अहम् I? कृत्स्नस्य of the whole? जगतः of the world? प्रभवः source? प्रलयः dissolution? तथा also.Commentary These two Natures? the inferior and the superior? are the womb of all beings. As I am the source of these two Prakritis or Natures also? I am the cause of this universe. The whole universe originates from Me and dissolves in Me.In the Brahma Sutras (chapter 1? section 1? aphorism 2) it is said? Janmadyasya yatah meaning that Brahman is that omniscient and omnipotent cause from which proceed the origin? subsistence and dissolution of this world.Just as the mind is the material cause and also the seer (Drashta) for the objects seen in a dream? so also Isvara is the material cause of this world (UpadanaKarana) and also the seer (Drashta). He is also the efficient or the instrumental cause (NimittaKarana). (Cf.XIV.3)
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
7.6 Upadharaya, understand; iti, thus; that sarvani, all; bhutani, things; etat-yonini, have these (etat) as their source (yoni)-things that have these lower and higher Prakrtis, charcterized as the 'field' and the 'Knower of the field (body)', as their source are etat-yonini. Since My two Prakrtis are the source, the cause of all things, therefore, aham, I; am the prabhavah, origin; tatha, as also; the pralayah, end, the termination; krtsnasya, of the whole; jagatah, Universe. The maning is this: I, who am the ominscient God, am the source of the Univese through My two Prakrtis. Since this is so, therefore-
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
7.6 Know that all beings from Brahma down to a tuft of grass, who have their origin in these two Prakrtis of Mine, are aggregated forms of the self and of inanimate matter. Irrespective of whether they are existing in a superior or inferior form, the selves and inanimate matter are mixed together in them. On account of their origination in My two Prakrtis, they are Mine. So, know that because the entire universe has its origination in these two Prakrtis which have their origination in Me, I am myself the origin and dissolution of the entire universe. For the same reason, I am its Lord (Sesin). It is proved on the basis of the Srutis and Smrtis that these two, Prakrti and Purusa (matter and the self), which form the aggregate of all animate and inanimate beings, have the Supreme Person as their cause. This is evident from Sruti and Smrti texts like the following: 'The Mahat resolves into Avyakta, Avyakta into Aksara, Aksara into Tamas, and Tamas becomes one with the Supreme Lord' (Su. U., 2); 'O sage, distinct from the form of Visnu, the Supreme Lord, the two forms, Prakrti and Purusa, arise' (V. P., 1.2.24); and 'What was described by Me as Prakrti in its dual form of the manifest and the unmanifest, and the Purusa do merge in the Supreme Self, and the Supreme Self is the support of all. He is the Supreme Lord named Visnu, exalted in the Vedas and Vedanta' (V. P., 6.4.38-39).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
7.6 See Comment under 7.7
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।7.6।। उपर्युक्त अपरा एवं परा प्रकृतियों के परस्पर संबंध से यह नानाविध वैचित्र्यपूर्ण सृष्टि व्यक्त होती है। जड़ प्रकृति के बिना चैतन्य की सार्मथ्य व्यक्त नहीं हो सकती और न ही उसके बिना जड़ उपाधियों में चेनवत् व्यवहार की संभावना ही रहती है। बल्ब में स्थित तार में स्वयं विद्युत् ही प्रकाश के रूप मे व्यक्त होती है। प्रकाश की अभिव्यक्ति के लिए विद्युत् और बल्ब दोनों का संबंध होना आवश्यक है। इसी प्रकार सृष्टि के लिए परा और अपरा जड़ और चेतन के संबंध की अपेक्षा होती है।इसी दृष्टि से भगवान् कहते हैं ये दोनों प्रकृतियां भूतमात्र की कारण हैं। एक मेधावी विद्यार्थी को इस कथन का अभिप्राय समझना कठिन नहीं है। बाह्य विषय भावनाएं तथा विचारों के जगत् की न केवल उत्पत्ति और स्थिति बल्कि लय भी चेतन पुरुष में ही होता है। इस प्रकार अपरा प्रकृति पारमार्थिक स्वरूप में पराप्रकृति से भिन्न नहीं है। आत्मा मानो अपने स्वरूप को भूलकर अपरा प्रकृति के साथ तादात्म्य करके जीवभाव के दुखों को प्राप्त होता है। परन्तु उसका यह दुख मिथ्या है वास्तविक नहीं। स्वस्वरूप की पहचान ही अनात्मबन्धन से मुक्ति का एकमात्र उपाय है। परा से अपरा की उत्पत्ति उसी प्रकार होती है जैसे मिट्टी के बने घटों की मिट्टी से। स्ाभी घटों में एक मिट्टी ही सत्य है उसी प्रकार विषय इन्द्रियां मन तथा बुद्धि इन अपरा प्रकृति के कार्यों का वास्तविक स्वरूप चेतन तत्त्व ही है।इसलिये

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।।7.6।। व्याख्या--'एतद्योनीनि भूतानि' (टिप्पणी प0 401.1) जितने भी देवता, मनुष्य, पशु, पक्षी आदि जङ्गम और वृक्ष, लता, घास आदि स्थावर प्राणी हैं, वे सब-के-सब मेरी अपरा और परा प्रकृतिके सम्बन्धसे ही उत्पन्न होते हैं। तेरहवें अध्यायके छब्बीसवें श्लोकमें भी भगवान्ने क्षेत्र और क्षेत्रज्ञके सम्बन्धसे सम्पूर्ण स्थावर-जङ्गम प्राणियोंकी उत्पत्ति बतायी है। यही बात सामान्य रीतिसे चौदहवें अध्यायके चौथे श्लोकमें भी बतायी है कि स्थावर, जङ्गम योनियोंमें उत्पन्न होनेवाले जितने शरीर हैं, वे सब प्रकृतिके हैं, और उन शरीरोंमें जो बीज अर्थात् जीवात्मा है, वह मेरा अंश है। उसी बीज अर्थात् जीवात्माको भगवान्ने 'परा प्रकृति' (7। 5) और 'अपना अंश' (15। 7) कहा है। 'सर्वाणीत्युपधारय'--स्वर्गलोक, मृत्युलोक, पाताललोक आदि सम्पूर्ण लोकोंके जितने भी स्थावर-जङ्गम प्राणी हैं, वे सब-के-सब अपरा और परा प्रकृतिके संयोगसे ही उत्पन्न होते हैं। तात्पर्य है कि परा प्रकृतिने अपराको अपना मान लिया है, (टिप्पणी प0 401.2) उसका सङ्ग कर लिया है, इसीसे सब प्राणी पैदा होते हैं--इसको तुम धारण करो अर्थात् ठीक तरहसे समझ लो अथवा मान लो।'अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा'--मात्र वस्तुओंको सत्ता-स्फूर्ति परमात्मासे ही मिलती है, इसलिये भगवान् कहते हैं कि मैं सम्पूर्ण जगत्का प्रभव (उत्पन्न करनेवाला) और प्रलय (लीन करनेवाला) हूँ। 'प्रभवः'का तात्पर्य है कि मैं ही इस जगत्का निमित्तकारण हूँ; क्योंकि सम्पूर्ण सृष्टि मेरे संकल्पसे (टिप्पणी प0 401.3) पैदा हुई है--'सदैक्षत बहु स्यां प्रजायेयेति' (छान्दोग्य0 6। 2। 3)।जैसे घड़ा बनानेमें कुम्हार और सोनेके आभूषण बनानेमें सुनार ही निमित्तकारण है ऐसे ही संसारमात्रकी उत्पत्तिमें भगवान् ही निमित्तकारण हैं।

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