Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3, Verse 14

अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भवः | यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः ||

annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ yajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ

From food, beings come into existence; from rain, food is produced; from yajna, rain comes forth; and yajna is born from action.

Krishna reveals a sacred cycle: beings exist from food (annāt bhavanti bhūtāni), food from rain (parjanyāt), rain from yajna—contributing action—and yajna from our karma. You're not independent; you're a node in an interdependent web. Your food didn't appear magically—rain nourished it, and rain itself comes from collective action maintaining natural cycles. We think we're self-sufficient consumers, but every breath exists because this cycle stays intact. The question: are you maintaining what sustains you, or only extracting from it?