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Bhagavad Gītā 7.4

BG 7.4

भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च। अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा

bhūmir-āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva cha ahankāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛitir aṣhṭadhā

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and personality—this is the eightfold division of My manifested nature.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and egoism—thus is My Nature divided eightfold.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

bhūmiḥ—earth; āpaḥ—water; analaḥ—fire; vāyuḥ—air; kham—space; manaḥ—mind; buddhiḥ—intellect; eva—certainly; cha—and; ahankāraḥ—ego; iti—thus; iyam—all these; me—my; bhinnā—divisions; prakṛitiḥ—material energy; aṣhṭadhā—eightfold

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 7.4, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/7.4), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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Dataset: Unlicense (public domain dedication). Translations: see per-translation licence.

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