yoni

  • species of life — Bg. 13.22plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBhagavad-gītā As It Is 13.22

    The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species.

yoni-bījayoḥ

  • of both the mother and father — SB 4.6.42plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.6.42

    Lord Brahmā said: My dear Lord Śiva, I know that you are the controller of the entire material manifestation, the combination father and mother of the cosmic manifestation, and the Supreme Brahman beyond the cosmic manifestation as well. I know you in that way.

yoni-gataḥ

  • being within a specific species of life — SB 6.16.8plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.16.8

    Even though one living entity becomes connected with another because of a relationship based on bodies that are perishable, the living entity is eternal. Actually it is the body that is born or lost, not the living entity. One should not accept that the living entity takes birth or dies. The living being actually has no relationship with so-called fathers and mothers. As long as he appears as the son of a certain father and mother as a result of his past fruitive activities, he has a connection with the body given by that father and mother. Thus he falsely accepts himself as their son and acts affectionately. After he dies, however, the relationship is finished. Under these circumstances, one should not be falsely involved with jubilation and lamentation.

yoni-nirgataḥ

  • coming out of the womb — SB 5.8.5plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.8.5

    The doe was pregnant, and when it jumped out of fear, the baby deer fell from its womb into the flowing waters of the river.

ajana-yoni-jaḥ

  • the son of Lord Brahmā, Dakṣa — SB 4.30.48plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.30.48

    Following the order of Lord Brahmā, all the Pracetās accepted the girl as their wife. From the womb of this girl, the son of Lord Brahmā named Dakṣa took birth. Dakṣa had to take birth from the womb of Māriṣā due to his disobeying and disrespecting Lord Mahādeva [Śiva]. Consequently he had to give up his body twice.

ātma-yoni

  • of Brahmā — SB 3.28.25plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.25

    The yogī should then meditate on His moonlike navel in the center of His abdomen. From His navel, which is the foundation of the entire universe, sprang the lotus stem containing all the different planetary systems. The lotus is the residence of Brahmā, the first created being. In the same way, the yogī should concentrate his mind on the Lord's nipples, which resemble a pair of most exquisite emeralds and which appear whitish because of the rays of the milk-white pearl necklaces adorning His chest.

bīja-yonī

  • both the cause and ingredient — Madhya 20.262plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.262

    " 'Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa are the original efficient and material causes of the material world. As Mahā-Viṣṇu and the material energy, They enter into the material elements and create the diversities by multi-energies. Thus They are the cause of all causes.'

nija-yoni

  • causing their own bodies — SB 7.2.41plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.2.41

    Every conditioned soul receives a different type of body according to his work, and when the engagement is finished the body is finished. Although the spirit soul is situated in subtle and gross material bodies in different forms of life, he is not bound by them, for he is always understood to be completely different from the manifested body.

yathā-yoni

  • exactly like the mother — SB 6.1.54plugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigŚrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.1.54

    The fruitive activities a living being performs, whether pious or impious, are the unseen cause for the fulfillment of his desires. This unseen cause is the root for the living entity's different bodies. Because of his intense desire, the living entity takes birth in a particular family and receives a body which is either like that of his mother or like that of his father. The gross and subtle bodies are created according to his desire.