Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit
Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda
3.15 Again, [a different reading in place of this is:
'Tat ca vividham karma kuto jatamityaha, From
where did those various kinds of action originate?
In reply the Lord says...' Still another reading is:
'Tat ca karma brahmodbhavam iti aha, And the
Lord says: That action has the Vedas as its origin.'vide
A.A., 1936, p. 116). Astekar's reading is: Tat ca
evam vidham karma kuto jatamityaha, And from
where has this kind of aciton originated? The
answers this.'-Tr.] viddhi, know; that karma,
action; is brahmodbhavam, it has Brahma, the
Veda, as its udbhavam, origin. [Here Ast. adds
'revealer'-Tr.] Further, Brahma, called the Veda, is
aksara-samudbhavam, it has aksara, the
Immutable, Brahman, the supreme Self, as its
source. This is the meaning. Since the Veda came
out, like the breath of a man, from the supreme Self
Itself, called the Immutable, therefore the Veda,
being the revealer of everything, is sarva-gatam, all
pervading. Even though all-pervading, the Veda is
nityam, for ever; pratisthitam, based; yajne, on
sacrifice, because the injunctions about sacrifices
predominate in it.
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