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प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः। भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात्।।9.8।।

prakṛitiṁ svām avaṣhṭabhya visṛijāmi punaḥ punaḥ bhūta-grāmam imaṁ kṛitsnam avaśhaṁ prakṛiter vaśhāt

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 9, Verse 8
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Animating My Nature, I again and again send forth all this multitude of beings, helpless under the force of Nature.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: presiding over his own nature, Krishna sends forth this whole multitude of beings again and again, helplessly, according to the force of nature, describing this cycling as automatic, not requiring conscious effort at each iteration.

In life: some renewal in your own life happens automatically, given the right underlying conditions, without needing to be manually forced each time.

Teaching: identify which parts of your own growth or recovery actually happen automatically once the right conditions are in place, and focus your deliberate effort on establishing those conditions rather than trying to force every single outcome directly.

prakṛitimthe material energy
svāmmy own
avaṣhṭabhyapresiding over
visṛijāmigenerate
punaḥ punaḥagain and again
bhūta-grāmammyriad forms
imamthese
kṛitsnamall
avaśhambeyond their control
prakṛiteḥnature
vaśhātforce

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
9.8 प्रकृतिम् Nature? स्वाम् My own? अवष्टभ्य having animated? विसृजामि (I) send forth? पुनः again? पुनः again? भूतग्रामम् multitude of beings? इमम् this? कृत्स्नम् all? अवशम् helpless? प्रकृतेः of Nature? वशात् by force.Commentary The Lord leans on? presses or embraces Nature. He invigorates and fertilises Nature which had gone to sleep at the end of the Mahakalpa or universal dissolution and projects again and again this whole multitude of beings. He gazes at each level and plane after plane comes into being.The term Prakriti denotes or indicates the five Kleshas or afflictions? viz.? Avidya (ignorance)? Asmita (egoism)? Raga (likes)? Dvesha (dislikes) and Abhinivesa (clinging to earthly life). (Cf.IV.6)