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 15, Verse 13
Verse 13
The Yoga of the Supreme Person
Entering the earth, I sustain all beings with My energy. Becoming the moon, the essence of sap, I nourish all plants.
Context & Meaning
The divine presence is not only cosmological but ecological. Krishna reveals himself as the sustaining force within the earth itself — the energetic substrate that holds the physical world together and upholds all beings upon it. And becoming the moon (soma), the principle of lunar moisture and vital sap (rasa), he nourishes every plant. Ancient Indian understanding saw the moon as the nourisher of vegetation through the vital fluid it infuses into plants — rasa, meaning sap, taste, essence, joy. God is not only the light above but the sap below, running through the tissues of the living world. This is a vision of radical divine immanence: the sacred is not elsewhere but flowing through every root, every stem, every leaf.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainMadhvacharya
DvaitaGod enters the earth as its sustaining power (ojas — vitality, energy) and enters the moon as rasa — the essential fluidity that animates all growth. Both the gross physical world and the subtle forces that shape it are permeated by the Divine. For the devotee, this means that tilling a field, eating a meal, or walking in a garden are all encounters with God — if the eyes are open.