Bg 3.14
annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ
yajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ
Bg 3.15
karma brahmodbhavaṁ viddhi brahmākṣara-samudbhavam
tasmāt sarva-gataṁ brahma nityaṁ yajñe pratiṣṭhitam
Translation:
14. From food come forth beings; from rain food is produced; from sacrifice arises rain, and sacrifice is born of action.
15. Know you that action comes from BRAHMAJI (the creator) and BRAHMAJI come from the Imperishable. Therefore, the all-pervading BRAHMAN (God-principle) ever rests in sacrifice .
Commentary Excerpts:
This stanza may read strangely to those who are not ready to bring the full shaft of their intelligence for the purpose of understanding it. It is evident to any modern educated man that living creatures are born out of matter. Matter is rendered consumable and digestible, nutritive and assimilable, only by the action of rains upon it. But the difficulty in understanding the stanza is when we come to the next assertion that "the rains come as a result of Yajnas."
But in Krishna's words here, we are not warranted in accepting that he is advising Arjuna to follow ritualism. In this stanza, as also elsewhere all along the Geeta, the familiar terms of the Vedic period has been charged with new meanings and significances. "Rain" is the essential condition for the conversion of the mineral-raw-material into enjoyable and nutritive food. Similarly, in all fields of activity there is "an enjoyable profit" which can be gathered only when the fields come under "conditions favourable" for them to produce those profits. "Self-dedicated activities" (Yajna), when performed in any given field of endeavour, will be creating therein "conditions necessary for the field to smile forth" (rain) in a luxurious "crop of profit" (Annam), enjoyable by the society.
For example, the wasteful waters of a river flowing idly can be dammed and made use of, if the waters are intelligently employed in irrigating the fertile lands now lying fallow on its banks. Through sacrifice and work alone can the dam be built and when it is built, it provides "conditions helpful" for bringing the lands on either side under the plough. Again, for making use of irrigated land, man has yet to strive: ploughing, sowing, weeding, waiting, gathering --- before he can come to enjoy the profit of his activities, the food.
We are shown how this Wheel-of-Action (stanza-15), is connected with and includes the Supreme. The principle of right action, nay, even the power to act, has come out of the Creator himself and the Creator is none other than the Imperishable Supreme. Action IS in the new-born live baby; action is a gift from the Creator! Therefore, the All-pervading Supreme is ever centred in all undertakings pursued, by one or many people, in an honest spirit of Self-dedication, for the good of all.
Sources: vedabase.com; The Holy Geeta
annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ
yajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ
Bg 3.15
karma brahmodbhavaṁ viddhi brahmākṣara-samudbhavam
tasmāt sarva-gataṁ brahma nityaṁ yajñe pratiṣṭhitam
Translation:
14. From food come forth beings; from rain food is produced; from sacrifice arises rain, and sacrifice is born of action.
15. Know you that action comes from BRAHMAJI (the creator) and BRAHMAJI come from the Imperishable. Therefore, the all-pervading BRAHMAN (God-principle) ever rests in sacrifice .
Commentary Excerpts:
This stanza may read strangely to those who are not ready to bring the full shaft of their intelligence for the purpose of understanding it. It is evident to any modern educated man that living creatures are born out of matter. Matter is rendered consumable and digestible, nutritive and assimilable, only by the action of rains upon it. But the difficulty in understanding the stanza is when we come to the next assertion that "the rains come as a result of Yajnas."
But in Krishna's words here, we are not warranted in accepting that he is advising Arjuna to follow ritualism. In this stanza, as also elsewhere all along the Geeta, the familiar terms of the Vedic period has been charged with new meanings and significances. "Rain" is the essential condition for the conversion of the mineral-raw-material into enjoyable and nutritive food. Similarly, in all fields of activity there is "an enjoyable profit" which can be gathered only when the fields come under "conditions favourable" for them to produce those profits. "Self-dedicated activities" (Yajna), when performed in any given field of endeavour, will be creating therein "conditions necessary for the field to smile forth" (rain) in a luxurious "crop of profit" (Annam), enjoyable by the society.
For example, the wasteful waters of a river flowing idly can be dammed and made use of, if the waters are intelligently employed in irrigating the fertile lands now lying fallow on its banks. Through sacrifice and work alone can the dam be built and when it is built, it provides "conditions helpful" for bringing the lands on either side under the plough. Again, for making use of irrigated land, man has yet to strive: ploughing, sowing, weeding, waiting, gathering --- before he can come to enjoy the profit of his activities, the food.
We are shown how this Wheel-of-Action (stanza-15), is connected with and includes the Supreme. The principle of right action, nay, even the power to act, has come out of the Creator himself and the Creator is none other than the Imperishable Supreme. Action IS in the new-born live baby; action is a gift from the Creator! Therefore, the All-pervading Supreme is ever centred in all undertakings pursued, by one or many people, in an honest spirit of Self-dedication, for the good of all.
Sources: vedabase.com; The Holy Geeta
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