अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसंभवः ।यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः ॥
annādbhavanti bhūtāni parjanyādannasaṃbhavaḥyajñādbhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karmasamudbhavaḥ
From food creatures come into being, from rain is the birth of food, from sacrifice comes into being the rain, sacrifice is born of work; work know to be born of Brahman, Brahman is born of the Immutable; therefore is the all-pervading Brahman established in the sacrifice.
Gītā 3·14The connecting logic of the “therefore” and the repetition of the word brahma are significant; for it shows clearly that the Brahman from which all work is born has to be understood with an eye not so much to the current Vedic teaching in which it means the Veda as to a symbolical sense in which the creative Word is identical with the all-pervading Brahman, the Eternal, the one Self present in all existences, sarvabhüteñu and present in all the workings of existence.
