4.6 Unborn, and coming into being Krishna speaks

अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन्
प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय संभवाम्यात्ममायया

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

Though unborn, though imperishable in nature, though the lord of all beings — I take my stand on my own nature and come into being.

Explanation

Unborn, and coming into being — both at once.

Though unborn, though imperishable in nature, though lord of all beings: I take my stand on my own nature and come into being.

The contradiction is not resolved, here or anywhere. 7.24 will say the mistake is to imagine this as a change in something formless — the unchanging did not become anything.

Word by word

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