Word meanings
- sarva-bhūtāni
- all living beings
- kaunteya
- Arjun, the son of Kunti
- prakṛtim
- primordial material energy
- yānti
- merge
- māmikām
- my
- kalpa-kṣaye
- at the end of a kalpa
- punaḥ
- again
- tāni
- them
- kalpa-ādau
- at the beginning of a kalpa
- visṛjāmi
- manifest
- aham
- I
Translations
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.
All beings, O Arjuna, return at the end of every cosmic cycle into the realm of Nature, which is a part of Me, and at the start of the next I send them forth again.
O son of Kunti, all the beings at the end of a cycle go back to My Prakrti. At the beginning of a cycle, I project them forth again.
हे कुन्तीनन्दन ! कल्पोंका क्षय होनेपर सम्पूर्ण प्राणी मेरी प्रकृतिको प्राप्त होते हैं और कल्पोंके आदिमें मैं फिर उनकी रचना करता हूँ।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.
Maha-Utpatti is the time of creation. (Cf.VIII.18-19)