Lord Krishna
Divine TeacherThe Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.
Speaking: Chapter 14, Verse 3
Verse 3
The Yoga of the Three Gunas
My womb is the great Brahman — the total material substance. In that I place the seed of life; from this, O Bharata, the birth of all beings comes about.
Context & Meaning
Krishna describes the cosmic genesis with an intimate metaphor: the great Brahman — the totality of Prakriti — is the womb, and He places within it the seed of all life. All beings arise from this primordial union. This is not merely cosmology but theology: creation is not a mechanical accident but an act of the Divine placing itself into matter, animating it, making it alive with consciousness. The entire universe is the offspring of this sacred encounter between consciousness and matter.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainMadhvacharya
DvaitaThe womb-and-seed metaphor reveals the intimacy of the divine relationship with creation. God does not create from a distance — He enters into matter, places the seed of individual souls into Prakriti, and the world of living beings is born. Every creature is, in this sense, the child of God and nature.