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 4
Verse 4
The Yoga of the Three Gunas
O son of Kunti, whatever forms are born in all the wombs, the great Brahman is their womb and I am the seed-giving father.
Context & Meaning
The cosmic principle of the previous verse is here made universal: every living form, in every species, in every womb throughout the universe, is born of this same primordial union. Prakriti is the universal mother; the Divine is the universal father who places the seed of consciousness into her. This is a vision of radical kinship — all beings, however different in form, share the same cosmic parentage. The recognition of this kinship is itself a form of liberation from the illusion of separation.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainRamanujacharya
VishishtadvaitaAhaṃ bījapradaḥ pitā — I am the seed-giving father. God is not merely the creator of species in the abstract; He is the intimate father of each individual soul that comes into being. This fatherly relationship grounds the entire path of devotion: the devotee returns love to the source of their very existence.