BG 14.3

मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं दधाम्यहम् ।
सम्भवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत ॥
mama yonir mahad brahma tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham
sambhavaḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ tato bhavati bhārata

Word-for-word meanings

bhārata — O descendant of Bharata;  mahat — the measureless [i.e., illimitable by time or space];  brahma — material nature [prakṛti];  mama — [is] My;  yoniḥ — womb;  tasmin — into which;  aham — I;  dadhāmi — place;  garbham — the seed [of conscious beings];  tataḥ — from which;  bhavati — ensues;  sambhavaḥ — the birth;  sarva-bhūtānām — of all beings.

Translation

O descendant of Bharata, the measureless material nature (Brahman*) is My womb wherein I place the seed of all conscious beings, from which ensues the birth of all beings.

Notes

* The word brahman, meaning that which is the source of unlimited expansion, generally refers to Absolute Reality, but it can also signify material nature (prakṛti), which is also the source of unlimited expansion in the form of its innumerable evolutes.

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