Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 6

एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय । अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा

etadyonīni bhūtāni sarvāṇītyupadhāraya | ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā

Translation

Know that all beings have their birth in these. So, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

etadyonīni

this, womb, whose, they

bhūtāni

beings

sarvāṇi

all

iti

thus

upadhāraya

understand

aham

I

kṛtsnasya

(of) whole

jagataḥ

of world

prabhavaḥ

(source of) becoming

pralayaḥ

(place of) dissolution

tathā

also

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

These, My inferior Nature (Prakṛti) and My superior Nature (Prakṛti), matter (Kṣetra) and spirit (Kṣetrajña), are the womb of all creatures. Because My Prakṛti is the womb of all beings, I am the origin and the end of the whole universe. That is to say, through this twofold Prakṛti, I, the omniscient Īśvara, am the cause of the universe.