BG 7.5
This is my lower nature. There is also my distinct higher nature, which forms the basis for life in this universe.
जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत्
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apareyam — this is inferior
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itas — besides this
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tvanyāṁ — but another
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tu — but
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anyām — another
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prakṛitiṁ — material nature
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viddhi — know
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me — my
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parām — superior
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jīva-bhūtāṁ — living beings
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jīva
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bhūtāṁ
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mahā-bāho — Arjuna
Refers to Arjuna as "mighty-armed one"-
mahā
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bāho
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yayedaṁ — by whom this
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dhāryate — the basis
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jagat — material world
My material nature is divided eightfold - earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and ego.
[4]This is my lower nature. There is also my distinct higher nature, which forms the basis for life in this universe.
[5]These two are the source of all living beings. I am the creator of the universe, and I am its dissolution.
[6]Similar verses
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My material nature is divided eightfold - earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and ego.
- Verse 7.4
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The self, seated in nature, experiences the qualities brought forth by nature. Affinity toward these qualities is the reason for birth in a good or evil womb.
- Verse 13.22
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Nature works under my direction to produce all moving and stationary things, and is the reason for everything in this cosmic manifestation.
- Verse 9.10
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There is the body, the personality, the sense organs, the various kinds of activities, and cosmic destiny.
- Verse 18.14
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The embodied souls in this world are my fragments, bound into material nature by the five senses and the mind.
- Verse 15.7