Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8 Verse 4
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 8 श्लोक 4

अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्।
अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर।।8.4।।



English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
8.4. The changing nature is the lord of the material beings;  the Person alone is the lord of the divinites; I am alone the Lord of  sacrifices and I, the best of the embodied (Souls), dwell in this body.


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
8.4 Adhibhutam etc.  The world of material  beings,  like  pot etc.,  is of changing nature,  because it flows or  gushes forth with its innate nature of changes etc.  Person :  Self.  It is the lord of the devinities, as all deities are established in It (or all deities get their perfections in It).  On the same reason it is only  Myself, the Supreme  Soul,  Who remain lording - as an enjoyer of sacrifice in its entirty - over sacrifices i.e. actions that are to be performed inevitably;  and it is  I only Who dwell in the body.  Thus, a pair of estions have been decided by single effort.   									
 Now, the other estion that remains to be answered viz.,  How are You to be realised at the time of departure ?,  the Lord decides as :


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 8.4Adhibhootam ksharo bhaavah purushashchaadhidaivatam;
Adhiyajno’hamevaatra dehe dehabhritaam vara.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 8.4adhibhūtam—the ever changing physical manifestation; kṣharaḥ—perishable; bhāvaḥ—nature; puruṣhaḥ—the cosmic personality of God, encompassing the material creation; cha—and; adhidaivatam—the Lord of the celestial gods; adhiyajñaḥ—the Lord of all sacrifices; aham—I; eva—certainly; atra—here; dehe—in the body; deha-bhṛitām—of the embodied; vara—O best