अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम् ।अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर ॥
adhibhūtaṃ kṣaro bhāvaḥ puruṣaścādhidaivatamadhiyajño’hamevātra dehe dehabhṛtāṃ vara
adhibhūtam is kṣaraḥ bhāvaḥ, adhidaiva is the Purusha; I myself am the Lord of sacrifice, adhiyajña here in the body, O best of embodied beings.
Gītā 8·4By adhibhūtam is to be understood all the result of mutable becoming, kṣaraḥ bhāvaḥ. By adhidaiva is intended the Purusha, the soul in Nature, the subjective being who observes and enjoys as the object of his consciousness all that is this mutable becoming of his essential existence worked out here by Karma in Nature. By adhiyajñaḥ, the Lord of works and sacrifice, I mean, says Krishna, myself, the Divine, the Godhead, the Purushottama here secret in the body of all these embodied existences.
