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अपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम् ।

जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत् ॥

7.5

Transliteratie

apareyamitastvanyāṃ prakṛtiṃ viddhi me parām |

jīvabhūtāṃ mahābāho yayedaṃ dhāryate jagat ||

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Vertaling

This is the inferior Prakriti, O mighty-armed (Arjuna); know thou as different from it My higher Prakriti (Nature), the very life-element, by which this world is upheld.

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Krishna calls the eightfold nature his lower nature. Beyond it is his higher nature, which has become the living beings, jīva-bhūta, and by which the whole world is sustained. Traditions understand this higher nature differently: as the conscious principle in all beings, as the countless individual souls who belong to the Lord, or as consciousness appearing in many forms. All agree that the verse distinguishes matter from the conscious life that animates it, and places both under Krishna as their source.

Door Sanskrit System · Machineconcept · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08