Bhagavatgita a detailed study chapter14 The three gunas

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3.mama yonih mahath brahma thasmin garbham

Dhadhaamyaham

 

sambhavaH

sarvabhoothaanaam thathaH bhavathi bhaaratha

 

 

The

moolaprkrthi, mahath brahma, is the origin of all creations and I place the

seed of all beings from which the whole creation arises, Oh Arjuna.

 

The

whole universe of sentient and insentient beings originate from the

moolaprkrthi known as avyaktha, the unmanifest and as pradhana, the first

evolute being the mahath or buddhi, which has been elaborated in the previous chapter.

The moola prakrhti is referred to here as mahath brahma. But the inanimate

prakrthi is not the creator but it is the Supreme Purusha who is placing the

seed of creation in the prkrthi, from which all beings originate.

 

 

4.sarvayonishu kountheya moorthayaH sambhavanthi

yaaH

 

Thaasaam

brahma mahath yoniH aham beejapradhaH pithaa

 

The

embodiment of all beings that happens in all sources originate only from the

moolaprakrthi and I am the father of all by placing the seed in the womb called

moolaprakrthi.

 

Hence

the Lord is the father of creation. The prkrthi as a result evolves into the

gross universe and the embodiment that results in different kinds of wombs such

as deva, manushya, thiryang, sThaavara yonis, is from the Lord only. This

concept of Vedanta is different from that of sankhya school according to which

the prkrthi creates itself by the gunas combining with each other due to

the proximity of purusha.The yoga philosophy advocated by Pathanjali, there is

a Supreme Purusha but He is not identical with the Brahman of the Upanishads

who existed alone in the beginning one

only without a second and even the prkrthi came out of Him only. The word

Prkrthi in Vedanta stands for the aggregates that constitute the universe

starting from the three gunas down to the gross universe while the moola

prakrthi is theire unmanifest state existing in Brahman.

 

5.satthvam rajasthama ithi gunaaH

prakrthisambhavaaH

 

NibaDhnanthi mahaabaaho dhehe dhehinam avyayam

 

The

three gunas, satthva, rajas and thamas which originate from the prkrthi bind

the individual soul, who is imperishable , to the body Arjuna.

 

Therefore

the three gunas, satthva , rajas and thamas which are elaborated in the

subsequent slokas, are responsible for the further evolution of prkrthi into

the gross universe down to the individual bodies of beings and the soul,

purusha , ever free and imperishable is delude in to believing that he is bound

to the body by the interaction of the three gunas.