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अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्। अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर।।8.4।।

adhibhūtaṁ kṣharo bhāvaḥ puruṣhaśh chādhidaivatam adhiyajño ’ham evātra dehe deha-bhṛitāṁ vara

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 8, Verse 4
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Adhibhuta - knowledge of the elements - pertains to My perishable nature, and the Purusha, or the Soul, is the Adhidaiva; I alone am the Adhiyajna here in this body, O best among the embodied.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the field of material nature refers to the perishable existence of beings, the Lord of sacrifice is Krishna himself dwelling in this very body, again grounding lofty terms in something concrete and located.

In life: it's easy to talk about deeper meaning as something distant or abstract, when it's actually meant to be found right where you already are, in your own body and daily life.

Teaching: practice looking for whatever you consider sacred or meaningful within your actual daily, embodied life, rather than treating it as something located somewhere else, far from your ordinary routine.

adhibhūtamthe ever changing physical manifestation
kṣharaḥperishable
bhāvaḥnature
puruṣhaḥthe cosmic personality of God, encompassing the material creation
chaand
adhidaivatamthe Lord of the celestial gods
adhiyajñaḥthe Lord of all sacrifices
ahamI
evacertainly
atrahere
dehein the body
deha-bhṛitāmof the embodied
varaO best

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
8.4 अधिभूतम् Adhibhuta? क्षरः perishable? भावः nature? पुरुषः the soul? च and? अधिदैवतम् Adhidaivata? अधियज्ञः Adhiyajna? अहम् I? एव alone? अत्र here? देहे in the body? देहभृताम् of the embodied? वर O best.Commentary Adhibhuta the perishable nature the changing universe of the five elements with all its objects all the material objects everything that has birth the changing world of names and forms.Adhidaiva Purusha literally means that by which everything is filled (pur to fill). It may also mean that which lies in this body. It is Hiranyagarbha or the universal soul or the sustainer from whom all living beings derive their sensepower. It is the witnessing consciousness.Adhiyajna Consciousness the presiding deity of sacrifice. The Lord of all works and sacrifice isVishnu. Lord Vishnu identifies Himself with all sacrificial acts. Yajna is verily Vishnu? says the Taittiriya Samhita of the Veda. Lord Krishna says? I am the presiding deity in all acts of sacrifice in the body. All sacrifices are done by the body and so it may be said that they rest in the body.