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भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते। रात्र्यागमेऽवशः पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे।।8.19।।

bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate rātryāgame ’vaśhaḥ pārtha prabhavatyahar-āgame

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 8, Verse 19
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
This same multitude of beings, being born again and again, helplessly dissolves, O Arjuna, into the Unmanifested at the coming of the night and comes forth at the coming of the day.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: this same multitude of beings, coming into existence again and again, dissolves at the coming of night and emerges again at the coming of day, helplessly, repeating this large-scale cyclical pattern with added emphasis on its involuntary nature.

In life: some cycles in your life repeat regardless of your preference, seasons, energy levels, market conditions, and fighting their existence is less useful than planning around them.

Teaching: identify one recurring cycle in your life you've been resisting rather than planning around, and shift your strategy toward working with its rhythm instead of against it.

bhūta-grāmaḥthe multitude of beings
saḥthese
evacertainly
ayamthis
bhūtvā bhūtvārepeatedly taking birth
pralīyatedissolves
rātri-āgamewith the advent of night
avaśhaḥhelpless
pārthaArjun, the son of Pritha
prabhavatibecome manifest
ahaḥ-āgamewith the advent of day

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
8.19 भूतग्रामः multitude of beings? सः that? एव verily? अयम् this? भूत्वा भूत्वा being born again and again? प्रलीयते dissolves? रात्र्यागमे at the coming of night? अवशः helpless? पार्थ O Partha? प्रभवति comes forth? अहरागमे at the coming of day.Commentary Avidya (ignorance)? Kama (desire) and Karma (action) are the three knots that bind the individual to Samsara. Desire is born of Avidya. Man exerts to attain and enjoy the objects of his desires. During this activity he favours some and injures others through the force of RagaDvesha (love and hatred or attraction and repulsion). Therefore he is caught in the wheel of Samsara or transmigration. He has to take birth again and again to reap the fruits of his own actions. He repeatedly comes forths and dissolves through the force of his own Karma.The individual souls have lost their independence as they are bound by ignorance? desire and activity. Therefore they are subject to the sorrows? miseries and pains of this Samsara. In order to create dispassion in their minds and a longing for liberation in their hearts? and to remove the fallacious belief that a man reaps the fruits of what he has not done or that he does not reap the fruits of what he has done? the Lord has said that all creatures involuntarily come into being again and again at the coming of the day and dissolve at the coming of the night (on account of the actions or Karmas caused by desire born of ignorance).