BG - 4.6

अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन्। प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय संभवाम्यात्ममायया।।4.6।।

ajo ’pi sannavyayātmā bhūtānām īśhvaro ’pi san prakṛitiṁ svām adhiṣhṭhāya sambhavāmyātma-māyayā

• ajaḥ - unborn
• api - although
• san - being so
• avyaya ātmā - Imperishable nature
• bhūtānām - of (all) beings
• īśhvaraḥ - the Lord
• api - although
• san - being
• prakṛitim - nature
• svām - of myself
• adhiṣhṭhāya - situated
• sambhavāmi - I manifest
• ātma-māyayā - by my Yogmaya power

Translation

Though I am unborn and of imperishable nature, and though I am the Lord of all beings, yet, governing my own nature, I am born by my own Maya.

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