Chapter 3 Overview
Verse 3.15
कर्म ब्रह्मोद्भवं विद्धि ब्रह्माक्षरसमुद्भवम्। तस्मात्सर्वगतं ब्रह्म नित्यं यज्ञे प्रतिष्ठितम्।।3.15।।
karma brahmodbhavaṁ viddhi brahmākṣhara-samudbhavam tasmāt sarva-gataṁ brahma nityaṁ yajñe pratiṣhṭhitam
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 3, Verse 15
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
Know that action comes from Brahma, and Brahma comes from the Imperishable. Therefore, the all-pervasive Brahma ever rests in sacrifice.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: action arises from Brahman, ultimately tracing all activity back to something beyond individual will or ego.
In life: crediting yourself entirely for your successes, or blaming yourself entirely for your failures, ignores how much of any outcome depends on forces larger than you.
Teaching: hold your achievements and failures a little more lightly, both are shaped by more than just you.
karmaduties
brahmain the Vedas
udbhavammanifested
viddhiyou should know
brahmaThe Vedas
akṣharafrom the Imperishable (God)
samudbhavamdirectly manifested
tasmāttherefore
sarva-gatamall-pervading
brahmaThe Lord
nityameternally
yajñein sacrifice
pratiṣhṭhitamestablished
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
3.15 कर्म action? ब्रह्मोद्भवम् arisen from Brahma? विद्धि know? ब्रह्म Brahma? अक्षरसमुद्भवम् arisen from the Imperishable? तस्मात् therefore? सर्वगतम् allpervading? ब्रह्म Brahma? नित्यम् ever? यज्ञे in sacrifice? प्रतिष्ठितम् (is) established.Commentary Brahma may mean Veda. Just as the breath comes out of a man? so also the Veda is the breath of the Imperishable or the Omniscient. The Veda ever rests in the sacrifice? i.e.? it deals chiefly with sacrifices and the ways of their performance. (Cf.IV.24 to 32).Karma Action? Brahmodbhavam arisen from the injunctions of the Vedas.