Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 9

पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ । जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasau | jīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu

Translation

And I am the agreeable odour in the earth and the brilliance in the fire, the vitality in all beings, and I am the austerity in ascetics.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

puṇyaḥ

pure

gandhaḥ

smell

pṛthivyām

in earth

ca

and

tejaḥ

light

ca

and

asmi

am (I)

vibhāvasau

in fire

jīvanam

life

sarvabhūteṣu

(in) all, in beings

tapaḥ

austerity

ca

and

asmi

am (I)

tapasviṣu

in ascetics

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

In Me as odour the earth is woven. — Odour by itself is agreeable; the disagreeableness of odour in the earth and of the like being due to the combination of one element with some other element or elements under the influence of the avidyā and a-dharma of individual souls in the world. The agreeableness thus spoken of with reference to the earth applies also to the agreeableness of the sapidity in waters, and so on. — I am the vitality in all beings, that by which all beings live. In Me as austerity the ascetics are woven.