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सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्। कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्।।9.7।।

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

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 9, Verse 7
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
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.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: at the end of a cycle, all beings merge into Krishna's nature, at the beginning of the next cycle, he sends them forth again, describing another large cyclical rhythm of dissolution and re-emergence, echoing the previous chapter's cosmic cycles.

In life: your own creative or productive cycles, periods of active output followed by quieter consolidation, tend to follow a similar rhythmic pattern, not a straight, unbroken line.

Teaching: plan your own major projects and efforts with built-in periods of quieter consolidation between active bursts, rather than expecting a single unbroken line of output.

sarva-bhūtāniall living beings
kaunteyaArjun, the son of Kunti
prakṛitimprimordial material energy
yāntimerge
māmikāmmy
kalpa-kṣhayeat the end of a kalpa
punaḥagain
tānithem
kalpa-ādauat the beginning of a kalpa
visṛijāmimanifest
ahamI

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
9.7 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)