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अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे। रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके।।8.18।।

avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavantyahar-āgame rātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-sanjñake

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 8, Verse 18
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
From the Unmanifested, all the manifested worlds proceed upon the arrival of the 'day'; upon the arrival of the 'night', they dissolve indeed into that which is known as the Unmanifested.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: at the coming of that day, all manifest beings emerge from the unmanifest, at the coming of night, they merge back into that same unmanifest state, describing a rhythm of emergence and dissolution operating at a vast scale.

In life: cycles of activity and rest, growth and consolidation, aren't a sign something has failed, they're simply the natural rhythm most living systems, including you, actually operate on.

Teaching: stop treating your own natural cycles of high activity and quieter consolidation as a problem, and instead plan around them as the expected rhythm, rather than fighting against the quieter phases.

avyaktātfrom the unmanifested
vyaktayaḥthe manifested
sarvāḥall
prabhavantiemanate
ahaḥ-āgameat the advent of Brahma’s day
rātri-āgameat the fall of Brahma’s night
pralīyantethey dissolve
tatrainto that
evacertainly
avyakta-sanjñakein that which is called the unmanifest

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
8.18 अव्यक्तात् from the Unmanifested? व्यक्तयः the manifested? सर्वाः all? प्रभवन्ति proceed? अहरागमे at the coming of day? रात्र्यागमे at the coming of night? प्रलीयन्ते dissolve? तत्र there? एव verily? अव्यक्तसंज्ञके in that which is called the Unmanifested.Commentary When Brahma awakes? all manifestations? moving and unmoving (animate and inanimate) stream forth at the coming of the day from the Avyakta or the Unmanifested. When Brahma goes to sleep? all the manifestations merge in the Unmanifested? for the cosmic night has set in.Coming of the day Commencement of creation.Coming of the night Commencement of dissolution. (Cf.IX.7and8)