Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 14: The Three Qualities of Nature

Bhagavad Gita 14.3

mama yonirmahadbrahma tasmin garbhaṃ dadhāmyaham | saṃbhavaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ tato bhavati bhārata ||

Great nature is my womb, and in it I place the seed. From that, Arjuna, comes the birth of all beings.

Modern context

The image is one of generation: great nature is the womb, and the divine places the seed in it. Everything that lives is born of this union. The picture is tender and fertile, not mechanical. Creation is not like building a machine but like the coming of a child, the joining of two principles that together give rise to life.