Chapter 9 · Verse 7

Yoga through the King of Sciences

सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्। कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्

sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛitiṁ yānti māmikām kalpa-kṣhaye punas tāni kalpādau visṛijāmyaham

Word Meanings

sarva-bhūtāni — all living beings; kaunteya — Arjun, the son of Kunti; prakṛitim — primordial material energy; yānti — merge; māmikām — my; kalpa-kṣhaye — at the end of a kalpa; punaḥ — again; tāni — them; kalpa-ādau — at the beginning of a kalpa; visṛijāmi — manifest; aham — I

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Translation

At the end of a cosmic cycle, all beings merge back into My primordial nature, O Arjuna, and at the beginning of the next cycle, I create them again.

Commentary

सर्वभूतानि all beings? कौन्तेय O Kaunteya? प्रकृतिम् to Nature? यान्ति go? मामिकाम् My? कल्पक्षये at the end of the Kalpa? पुनः again? तानि them? कल्पादौ at the beginning of the Kalpa? विसृजामि send forth? अहम् I.Commentary Prakriti The inferior one or the lower Nature composed of the three alities? Sattva? Rajas and Tamas.Just as the grass grows from the earth and dries up in the earth? just as the ripples and waves rise from the ocean and disappear in the ocean itself? just as the dreams proceed from the mind and melt away in the mind itself when the dreamer comes back to the waking state? so also the beings which arise from Nature merge into it during dissolution or Pralaya.Pralaya is the period of dissolution. MahaUtpatti is the time of creation. (Cf.VIII.18?19)