15.13

Sanskrit

गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा । पुष्णामि चौषधीः सर्वाः सोमो भूत्वा रसात्मकः ॥

gām āviśya ca bhūtāni dhārayāmy aham ojasā puṣṇāmi cauṣadhīḥ sarvāḥ somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ

Translation

Permeating the soil, I support beings by my vital energy, and having become the delicious Soma I nourish all plants.

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

Continuing the immanence catalogue, this verse locates Krishna in soil-permeating vital energy and in Soma, the plant- and moon-associated substance that nourishes vegetation. The translator’s own footnote flags real uncertainty about whether “rasātmakaḥ” here means “having become the moon” or simply “having become sap” — that ambiguity is worth keeping rather than resolving artificially, since it reflects genuine interpretive disagreement in the tradition rather than a translation error.