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संत साहित्य · Jñāneśvarī · Adhyāya 14

Cluster 0494 — BG-14.3 — *mama yonir mahad-brahma tasmin garbham dadhāmy aham — sambhavaḥ sarva-bhūtānām tato bhavati bhārata*

BG-14.3

Sanskrit

मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं दधाम्यहम्। संभवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत॥३॥

Translation

MY (mama) YONI (yoniḥ) is the MAHAD-BRAHMA (mahad-brahma) — IN THAT (tasmin) I (aham) PLACE (dadhāmi) the GARBHA (garbham) — the SAṂBHAVA (sambhavaḥ) of ALL BEINGS (sarva-bhūtānām) FROM THERE (tataḥ) HAPPENS (bhavati) O-BHĀRATA (bhārata).

Function

BG-14.3 delivers the iconic cosmogonic-PARENT verse — one of the BG's most-distinctive cosmogonic disclosures, deploying radical YONI-GARBHA reproductive-imagery for the Lord-as-FATHER + MAHAD-BRAHMA-as-MOTHER bipartite cosmogony:

  • mama yoniḥ mahad-brahma — MY YONI is the MAHAD-BRAHMA. The iconic Lord-possessive identifying the MAHAD-BRAHMA (Sānkhya-MAHAT + BRAHMA-substrate) as the Lord's-own-cosmogonic-WOMB-MOTHER.
  • tasmin garbham dadhāmy aham — IN THAT I PLACE the GARBHA. The iconic 1st-person-cosmogonic-verb naming Lord-as-FATHER, anticipating BG-14.4's bīja-pradāḥ pitā.
  • sambhavaḥ sarva-bhūtānām tato bhavati bhārata — the SAṂBHAVA of ALL BEINGS comes FROM-THERE O-BHĀRATA. The iconic universal-cosmogonic-yield naming the MAHAD-BRAHMA-WOMB + Lord-GARBHA-DEPOSIT conjunction as the source of all-being-arising.

The verse extends BG-9.10's mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram (under-MY-OVERSIGHT prakṛti gives-birth to moving-and-unmoving) by specifying the bipartite parental-architecture: prakṛti-as-MAHAD-BRAHMA-MOTHER + Lord-as-GARBHA-depositing-FATHER.

Jñāneśvar's 49-ovi Treatment

Jñāneśvar's massive 49-ovi treatment (14.67-14.115) is among the largest single-sloka-treatments in the entire Jñāneśvarī. The pedagogical-architecture is precise across 3 major sub-sections (20+10+19):

(i) 14.67-14.86 — MAHAD-BRAHMA-AJÑĀNA Cascade (20 ovis)

  • 14.67-14.68 — Etymological MAHADĀDI-VIŚRĀMA-ŚĀLIKĀ + VIKĀRA-BAHUVASA-THŌRĪ naming WHY the MAHAD-BRAHMA bears the MAHAT-name.
  • 14.69-14.71 — Multi-school equivalence: AVYAKTA-VĀDA-AVYAKTA + SĀṄKHYA-PRAKṚTI + VEDĀNTA-MĀYĀ deflated into AJÑĀNA-as-ātma-vismṛti (FORGETTING-OF-ONESELF).
  • 14.72-14.78 — Classical 6-PARADOX-IMAGERY for AJÑĀNA: LAMP-DARKNESS + CHURNED-MILK-CREAM + SUṢUPTI-DEEP-SLEEP + BARREN-SKY-WITHOUT-WIND + PILLAR-OR-MAN-IN-TWILIGHT + VIPARYĀSA-mistaken-cognition + TWILIGHT-SANDHI.
  • 14.79-14.81 — KṢETRAJÑA-as-GUṆḌALIYĀ-PRAKĀŚA wrapped-light + KṢETRAJÑA-as-AJÑĀNA-IMPORTING-yet-NOT-knowing-itself + NAISARGA-SVABHĀVA of SATTĀ.
  • 14.82-14.85 — VIVARTA-doctrine + iconic DELUDED-BEGGAR + FAINTING-SVARGA-LOKA + iconic MĪCĪ-VIYĒ-PAIṀ-GĀ Lord-as-MOTHER self-disclosure + SVAPNA-eka-bahuvā dream-multiplicity.
  • 14.86 — closing PRATĪTI direct-experience pivot to Arjuna.

(ii) 14.87-14.96 — GṚHIṆĪ-AVIDYĀ-WIFE Section (10 ovis)

  • 14.87 — iconic GṚHIṆĪ-AVIDYĀ-WIFE-metaphor: mājhī hē gṛhiṇī — anādi taruṇī — anirvācyaguṇī — avidyā hē (MY WIFE — beginningless — young — inexpressible — AVIDYĀ). Among the most-radical domestic-cosmogonic-metaphors in the Jñāneśvarī.
  • 14.88 — NIDRITĀ-SAMĪPA-CETĀṀ-DŪRĪ paradox naming AVIDYĀ's epistemological-asymmetry.
  • 14.89 — iconic LORD-LIES-DOWN + SATTĀ-CONJUGAL-UNION + GURVIṆĪ-becoming-pregnant statement of utmost-radicality.
  • 14.90 — iconic MAHAD-BRAHMA-UDARA-WOMB + 8-VIKĀRA-PĒLŌVĒLĪ-cascade.
  • 14.91-14.93 — Classical Sānkhya-tattva-sequence: BUDDHI + MANAS + MAMATĀ-AHAṄKĀRA + MAHĀBHŪTA-manifestation + VIṢAYA-INDRIYA-companion-arising.
  • 14.94-14.96 — VIKĀRA-KṢŌBHA-TRIGUṆA-VĀSANĀ-GARBHA + iconic BĪJA-TREE-WATER-CONTACT image + closing MĀJHĒNI-SAṄGĒṀ Lord-CONTACT-as-cosmogonic-cause.

(iii) 14.97-14.115 — 4-YONI + ANTHROPOMORPHIC-COSMIC-CHILD Section (19 ovis)

  • 14.97-14.98 — Pivot to GARBHA-GŌḶĀ-EMBRYO-MASS + iconic 4-YONI-classification: MAṆIJA (egg-born) + SVĒDAJA (sweat-born) + UDBHIJA (plant-born) + JĀRAJA (womb-born).
  • 14.99-14.102 — 5-mahābhūta-2-element-combinations mapped to each yoni: VYŌMA-VĀYU = MAṆIJA + TAMA-RAJAS-TŌYA-TĒJA = SVĒDAJA + ĀPA-PṚTHVĪ-LOW-TAMAS = UDBHIJA + ALL-5-MAHĀBHŪTA-PLUS-MANAS-BUDDHI = JĀRAJA.
  • 14.103-14.106 — Iconic ANTHROPOMORPHIC-COSMIC-CHILD-DIAGRAM: 4-yonis = arms-and-legs + mahaprakṛti = head + pravṛtti = belly + nivṛtti = back + 8-deva-yonis = upper-limbs + kaṇṭha = svarga + mṛtyu-loka = middle + adhōdēśa = nitamba. Closing LĒKARŪṀ-ĒKA-PRASAVALĪ SINGLE-CHILD with 3-LOKA-as-BĀḶASĒṀ-childhood.
  • 14.107-14.110 — 84-LAKH-yoni-DAILY-growth + NAMA-as-ORNAMENTS + MŌHASTANYA-DELUSION-BREAST-MILK + BHINNĀBHIMĀNA-MUDRĀ-rings + ĒKALAUTĒṀ-CARĀCARA single-unique-totality.
  • 14.111-14.112 — Iconic TRIMŪRTI-as-3-DAILY-TIMES of cosmic-child: BRAHMĀ-MORNING + VIṢṆU-MIDDAY + SADĀŚIVA-EVENING + MAHĀPRAḶAYA-SLEEP + KALPA-AWAKENING.
  • 14.113-14.114 — MITHYĀDṚṢṬI-house + YUGĀNUVṚTTI-CŌJA-FOOTPRINTS + iconic SAṄKALPA-AHAṄKĀRA-MARRIAGE-DISSOLVED-BY-JÑĀNA.
  • 14.115 — Closing iconic MĀYĀ-VYĀLĪ-MĀJHĪ-SATTĀ-SĀHYA bipartite-closing-formula: aisēm viśva māyā vyālī — tēthē sāhya jālī — mājhī sattā (SUCH IS THE WORLD MĀYĀ GAVE-BIRTH-TO-IT — and MY SATTĀ was the HELP).

Five precise Marathi elevations beyond the Sanskrit

  1. GṚHIṆĪ-AVIDYĀ-WIFE-metaphor (14.87) — Lord NAMES AVIDYĀ-MAHAD-BRAHMA as HIS-OWN-WIFE with 3 qualifications (anādi + taruṇī + anirvācya). Among the most-radical domestic-cosmogonic-metaphors in the Jñāneśvarī. Vyāsa's laconic mama yoniḥ mahad-brahma (MY YONI is MAHAD-BRAHMA) becomes a full conjugal-domestic disclosure.

  2. LORD-LIES-DOWN + SATTĀ-CONJUGAL-UNION + GURVIṆĪ-becoming-pregnant (14.89) — The iconic Marathi conjugal-cosmogonic statement of utmost-radicality precisely rendering the Sanskrit tasmin garbham dadhāmy aham. The PAHUḌHALIYĀ + SATTĀ-SAMBHŌGA + GURVIṆĪ vocabulary cluster is purely Marathi pedagogical-elevation.

  3. MĪCĪ-VIYĒ-PAIṀ-GĀ Lord-as-MOTHER self-disclosure (14.84) — Lord uses the feminine-birth-verb VIYĒ (I-GIVE-BIRTH) for cosmogony. Purely Marathi pedagogical-elevation yielding the bipartite FATHER-MOTHER Lord-architecture.

  4. ANTHROPOMORPHIC-COSMIC-CHILD-DIAGRAM (14.103-14.106) — Original Marathi mapping: 4-yonis = arms-legs + mahaprakṛti = head + pravṛtti = belly + nivṛtti = back + 8-deva-yonis = upper-limbs + 3-lokas onto kaṇṭha/middle/nitamba. Among the most-original Marathi cosmogonic-anthropomorphisms in the entire Jñāneśvarī, echoing BG-11.13 viśva-rūpa.

  5. TRIMŪRTI-as-3-DAILY-TIMES of cosmic-child (14.111) — Original Marathi mapping BRAHMĀ-MORNING + VIṢṆU-MIDDAY + SADĀŚIVA-EVENING as the 3-daily-times of the cosmic-child's day, with MAHĀPRAḶAYA = night-sleep + KALPA = next-morning-awakening. Among the most-original Marathi Trimūrti-cosmogonic-mappings.

Arc-position

BG-14.3 stands within the adhyāya-14 opening-section (BG-14.1-4) introducing the iconic GUṆATRAYA-VIBHĀGA-YOGA chapter. The chapter's argument: BG-14.1 = param bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi opening-promise → BG-14.2 = mat-sādharmya-doctrine → BG-14.3 = iconic mama-yonir-mahad-brahma cosmogonic-PARENT verse → BG-14.4 = sarva-yoniṣu-kaunteya bīja-pradāḥ-pitā FATHER-naming-COMPLETION → BG-14.5-18 = 3-GUṆA-doctrine + GUṆA-binding-and-character + GUṆA-liberation → BG-14.19-27 = GUṆĀTĪTA-LAKṢAṆA + culmination. Cluster 0494 contributes the iconic cosmogonic-PARENT verse establishing the LORD-FATHER + MAHAD-BRAHMA-PRAKṚTI-MOTHER bipartite cosmogony that the chapter's GUṆA-doctrine will elaborate. Doctrinal-progression from 0493 (BG-14.2 mat-sādharmya) to 0494: MAT-SĀDHARMYA-LIBERATION → COSMOGONIC-FOUNDATION explaining what-the-LIBERATION-frees-from. The next cluster (0495) completes the bipartite-cosmogony with BG-14.4's explicit FATHER-naming (BĪJA-PRADĀḤ-PITĀ) + universal-extension (SARVA-YONIṢU).