संस्कृत
अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसंभवः । यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः ॥
annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād annasambhavaḥ yajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karmasamudbhavaḥ
अनुवाद
From food creatures become; from rain is the production of food; rain proceedeth from sacrifice; sacrifice ariseth out of action.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
व्याख्या
A chain argument — creatures depend on food, food on rain, rain on sacrifice, sacrifice on action — that closes the causal loop verse 15 will name explicitly as a “wheel.” Each link is a real ecological dependency, rain does produce food, pressed into service as a metaphysical claim about action’s cosmic function, blurring agricultural fact and ritual theology in a way that’s characteristic of how this argument works. The figure on the chapter page lays this chain out as a turning wheel. Whether one reads “sacrifice → rain” literally or as the claim that a world of givers stays fed while a world of takers does not, the structural point stands: your action is a link others depend on.
गहराई से अध्ययन करें
शब्द-दर-शब्द
- annād bhavanti bhūtāniअन्नाद् भवन्ति भूतानि
- from food beings come to be (annāt + bhavanti + bhūtāni)
- parjanyād annasambhavaḥपर्जन्याद् अन्नसंभवः
- from rain, the arising of food (parjanyāt + anna-sambhavaḥ)
- yajñād bhavati parjanyoयज्ञाद् भवति पर्जन्यो
- from sacrifice comes rain (yajñāt + bhavati + parjanyaḥ)
- yajñaḥ karmasamudbhavaḥयज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः
- sacrifice arises from action (yajñaḥ + karma-samudbhavaḥ)
टीका
Site Commentary
Read on its own, the chain — food from rain, rain from sacrifice, sacrifice from action — is a closed loop with no named starting point; it could describe a self-sustaining system with no origin at all. It’s only verse 15, anchoring the whole chain in Brahman, that breaks the circularity and gives the loop a first cause.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
Site Commentary — Second Reading
Stripped of its ritual vocabulary, the chain described here — creatures need food, food needs rain, rain needs an input from the very system that consumes it — is the same structure behind any commons: a community garden, a mailing list, an open-source project, all of which stay alive only as long as enough participants put something back rather than only drawing out. The verse’s leap from ecology to obligation isn’t a category error; it’s the oldest argument for why a shared resource collapses once “sacrifice” — voluntary contribution back into the pool — drops below what’s being withdrawn. Read this way, yajña isn’t primarily about ritual at all; it’s an early name for what keeps any commons solvent.
Original commentary written for this site · © Amit Singh — original commentary
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पाठ
व्यक्तिगत
- When you're building a habit loop for yourself — effort feeds results feeds motivation feeds more effort — remember a closed loop doesn't explain how it started. Name the actual first cause you're relying on to kick it off, not just the self-sustaining cycle once running.
व्यावसायिक
- When you diagram a feedback loop for a system — deploys build confidence, confidence enables more deploys — remember the diagram alone doesn't explain how the loop was originally bootstrapped. Document the actual seed event, not just the steady-state cycle.
परिवार और समाज
- When a family tradition feels self-sustaining — everyone shows up because everyone always shows up — remember someone started it deliberately once. Naming and honoring that original choice keeps the tradition alive on purpose, not just by inertia.
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