Verse 14.3

मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन् गर्भं दधाम्यहम्।संभवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत।।14.3।।

mama yonir mahad brahma tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham sambhavaḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ tato bhavati bhārata

Meaning

My womb? It's like, *the* Brahma, the ultimate source, fam. I drop the germ in there, and *bam*, Arjuna, that's how everything gets made.

Commentary

Okay, so like, my womb is, like, totally the ultimate source, the big Brahma. I'm dropping the germ, the seed, into it, and boom! That's where all beings come from, fam. It's like, the ultimate cosmic womb, the source of everything. It's called the great Brahma because it's where the five elements chill, and it's also the cosmic mind. It's the OG source, the Mulaprakriti, the primordial nature, the original principle. Vedantins call it Maya, the illusion, Sankhyas call it Prakriti. It's the biggest thing ever, greater than all its effects. It's the material cause of everything, the source and the energy that nourishes everything. I put the embryo of life in it, and then everything starts popping off. It's like the clay, but it doesn't create the forms itself. It gives birth to Brahma, who creates everything, like a potter with clay. I've got two Saktis, the superior and inferior natures, the field and the knower. I unite them, the spirit and the matter. The individual soul gets caught up in ignorance, desire, and action. Because of ignorance, they forget their divine nature, get tangled in desire and karma, and get stuck in the cycle of birth and death. The Jiva, the individual soul, gets overpowered by ignorance and forgets its purity. The unmanifested is a dark matrix with infinite potential, not a substance. Sound and energy are undifferentiated. The whole world gets absorbed into it during cosmic dissolution. The three Gunas aren't a substance, they're like a twisted rope of three colors: white (sattvic), red (Rajas), and black (Tamas). They aren't balanced in the manifested world. Water and seed on earth make sprouts that grow into trees. In the womb of nature, the seed develops into the eight elements: earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ego. The first fruit of nature and soul contact is MahatTattva, or intellect. From intellect comes mind, from mind ego, from ego the five elements. There are four types of beings: Jarayuja (placenta), Andaja (eggs), Svedaja (sweat), and Udbhijja (seeds). Humans, cows, etc. are Jarayuja; birds are Andaja; lice are Svedaja; and plants are Udbhijja.