Bhagavad Gītā · Chapter 14, Verse 4
सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः।तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता।।
sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ
tāsāṁ brahma mahad yonir ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā
also searched as "sarvayonishu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah"
Translation
Whatever forms are produced in any womb, O Arjuna, the Prakṛti is their great womb, and I am the sowing father.
Vāṇi's rendering
Whatever form is born from any womb anywhere — nature is the great mother, and I the seed-giving father.
Word by word
| Sanskrit & transliteration | Meaning |
|---|---|
| सर्वयोनिषुsarva-yoniṣu | in all wombs, in every kind of birth-place |
| कौन्तेयkaunteya | Arjuna, son of Kuntī |
| मूर्तयःmūrtayaḥ | forms, embodied shapes |
| सम्भवन्तिsambhavanti | come to be, are born |
| याःyāḥ | whatever ones, whichever |
| तासाम्tāsāṁ | of those, for all of them |
| ब्रह्मbrahma | the vast one — here nature itself, the field of becoming |
| महत्mahat | great (mahat before yoniḥ, sounding as mahad) |
| योनिःyoniḥ | womb, source (sounding as yonir before ahaṁ) |
| अहम्ahaṁ | I |
| बीजप्रदःbīja-pradaḥ | the seed-giver, the one who places the germ |
| पिताpitā | father |
Frequently asked
What does Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Verse 4 mean?
It means no birth anywhere is fatherless. Prakṛti, nature, is the womb that shapes every form that has ever appeared — insect, tree, human, god. Krishna is the seed placed in that womb. Two origins for one creature: the material that holds you, and the intent that started you.
Sarvayonishu kaunteya murtayah sambhavanti yah — what is this verse saying?
Every womb, everywhere, is the same womb. Krishna tells Arjuna that the endless variety of bodies rises from one great source, and that he himself is the father of all of them. Difference is in the forms. The origin does not vary at all.
If Krishna is the father of everything, why are beings so unequal?
Because the womb shapes what the seed becomes. Nature works through the three guṇas, and each form receives its mixture — that is where difference enters. The seed is identical in a beggar and a king. The moulding is not. Krishna claims the seed, not the mould.
What should I actually do with this teaching?
Look at what you call yours — your temperament, your body, your circumstance — and see it as your mother's side, given by nature and not chosen. Then look for the other half. Something in you was placed there deliberately. Live as one who was intended, not merely produced.
Read every verse this way, held — inside Vāṇi.
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Commentary
Krishna splits parentage in two and keeps neither half for himself alone. Nature carries every form — the moth, the king, the child born tonight in a room you will never see. She is the womb. But nothing quickens in a womb unaddressed. Krishna is the seed, the intent, the fact that anything at all was wanted into being. Arjuna is being told his enemies and his kin come from the same double origin as he does. So do you. Whatever you inherited from body and circumstance is your mother's side. The other half of you was given, and it was given deliberately.