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Verse 14·4

The Divine as seed-giving father

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सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः ।तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिर् अहं बीजप्रदः पिता ॥

sarvayoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥtāsāṃ brahma mahadyonir ahaṃ bījapradaḥ pitā

Whatever forms are produced in whatsoever wombs, O Kaunteya, the Mahat Brahman is their womb, and I am the Father who casts the seed.

Gītā 14·4

The Eternal puts all this movement forth as his self-creation. He is at once the Father and Mother of the universe; the substance of the infinite Idea, vijñāana , the Mahad Brahman, is the womb into which he casts the seed of his self-conception. As the Over-Soul he casts the seed; as the Mother, the Nature-Soul, the Energy filled with his conscious power, he receives it into this infinite substance of being made pregnant with his illimitable, yet self-limiting Idea.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 424

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