Chapter 9, Verse 7
Raja Vidya Yoga — Sanskrit shloka, transliteration, word meanings, English translation, and commentary.
Original Sanskrit verse
Transliteration
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
English translation
All beings, O Arjuna, go into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth again at the beginning of the next Kalpa.
— Swami Sivananda
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Commentary
Prakriti The inferior one or the lower Nature composed of the three qualities; 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)
Commentary by Swami Sivananda
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