🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 9.7

Chapter 9 · राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोग · Rāja-Vidyā-Rāja-Guhya-Yoga · "The Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret" · Verse 7 of 34

सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्।

कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्।।9.7।।
— Bhagavad-Gītā 9.7 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
9.7 All beings, O Arjuna, return at the close of every cosmic cycle into the realm of Nature, which is a part of Me, and at the beginning of the next I send them forth again.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
9.7 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.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
9.7 Kaunteya, O son of Kunti; sarva-bhutani, all the beings-all the beings which, like wind abiding in space, abide thus in Me during their period of existence; yanti, go back; kalpa-ksaye, at the end of a cycle, at the time of dissolution; mamikam prakrtim, to My Prakrti which consists of the three gunas (alities; see 7.13) and is (called My) lower Nature. Punah, again; aham, I; visrjami, project forth, create; tani, them, the beings, as before [As before: as in previous cycles of creation.]; kalpadau, at the beginning of a cycle, at the time of creation.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
9.7 All the mobile and immobile entities enter into My Prakrti at the end of a cycle, namely at the end of Brahma's life in accordance with My will. This Prakrti, constituting My body, is designated by the term Tamas, as it cannot be differentiated into name and form. I again send forth the very same beings at the beginning of a cycle. Manu declares accordingly: 'This universe became Tamas ৷৷. by an act of will. He produced it out of His body' (Manu, 1.5.8). The Srutis also declare thus: 'He whose body is Avyakta' (Su. U., 7); 'The Avyakta merges into Aksara, the Aksara into Tamas' (Ibid., 2); and also 'There was Tamas; the intelligence was concealed by Tamas' (Tai. Br., 1.8.9).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
9.7. O son of Kunti, all beings pass into the nature [of Mine] at the end of the Kalpa (the age of universe); I send them forth again at the beginning of the [next] Kalpa.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।9.7।। हे कुन्तीनन्दन ! कल्पोंका क्षय होनेपर सम्पूर्ण प्राणी मेरी प्रकृतिको प्राप्त होते हैं और कल्पोंके आदिमें मैं फिर उनकी रचना करता हूँ।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
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)
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
9.7 Kaunteya, O son of Kunti; sarva-bhutani, all the beings-all the beings which, like wind abiding in space, abide thus in Me during their period of existence; yanti, go back; kalpa-ksaye, at the end of a cycle, at the time of dissolution; mamikam prakrtim, to My Prakrti which consists of the three gunas (alities; see 7.13) and is (called My) lower Nature. Punah, again; aham, I; visrjami, project forth, create; tani, them, the beings, as before [As before: as in previous cycles of creation.]; kalpadau, at the beginning of a cycle, at the time of creation.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
9.7 All the mobile and immobile entities enter into My Prakrti at the end of a cycle, namely at the end of Brahma's life in accordance with My will. This Prakrti, constituting My body, is designated by the term Tamas, as it cannot be differentiated into name and form. I again send forth the very same beings at the beginning of a cycle. Manu declares accordingly: 'This universe became Tamas ৷৷. by an act of will. He produced it out of His body' (Manu, 1.5.8). The Srutis also declare thus: 'He whose body is Avyakta' (Su. U., 7); 'The Avyakta merges into Aksara, the Aksara into Tamas' (Ibid., 2); and also 'There was Tamas; the intelligence was concealed by Tamas' (Tai. Br., 1.8.9).
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
9.7 Sarva- etc. Nature : unmanifest form.
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।9.7।। See commentary under 9.8.

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।9.7।। व्याख्या--'सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकां कल्पक्षये' -- सम्पूर्ण प्राणी मेरे ही अंश हैं और सदा मेरेमें ही स्थित रहनेवाले हैं। परन्तु वे प्रकृति और प्रकृतिके कार्य शरीर आदिके साथ तादात्म्य (मैं-मेरेपनका सम्बन्ध) करके जो कुछ भी कर्म करते हैं, उन कर्मों तथा उनके फलोंके साथ उनका सम्बन्ध जुड़ता जाता है, जिससे वे बार-बार जन्मते-मरते रहते हैं। जब महाप्रलयका समय आता है,(जिसमें ब्रह्माजी सौ वर्षकी आयु पूरी होनेपर लीन हो जाते हैं), उस समय प्रकृतिके परवश हुए वे सम्पूर्ण प्राणी प्रकृतिजन्य सम्बन्धको लेकर अर्थात् अपने-अपने कर्मोंको लेकर मेरी प्रकृतिमें लीन हो जाते हैं।महासर्गके समय प्राणियोंका जो स्वभाव होता है, उसी स्वभावको लेकर वे महाप्रलयमें लीन होते हैं। 'पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्'-- महाप्रलयके समय अपने-अपने कर्मोंको लेकर प्रकृतिमें लीन हुए प्राणियोंके कर्म जब परिपक्व होकर फल देनेके लिये उन्मुख हो जाते हैं, तब प्रभुके मनमें 'बहु स्यां प्रजायेय' ऐसा संकल्प हो जाता है। यही महासर्गका आरम्भ है। इसीको आठवें अध्यायके तीसरे श्लोकमें कहा है -- 'भूतभावोद्भवकरो विसर्गः कर्मसंज्ञितः' अर्थात् सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंका जो होनापन है, उसको प्रकट करनेके लिये भगवान्का जो संकल्प है, यही विसर्ग (त्याग) है और यही आदिकर्म है। चौदहवें अध्यायमें इसीको 'गर्भं' 'दधाम्यहम्' (14। 3) और 'अहं बीजप्रदः पिता' (14। 4) कहा है।तात्पर्य यह हुआ कि कल्पोंके आदिमें अर्थात् महासर्गके आदिमें ब्रह्माजीके प्रकट होनेपर मैं पुनः प्रकृतिमें लीन हुए, प्रकृतिके परवश हुए, उन जीवोंका उनके कर्मोंके अनुसार उन-उन योनियों-(शरीरों-) के साथ विशेष सम्बन्ध करा देता हूँ--यह मेरा उनको रचना है। इसीको भगवान्ने चौथे अध्यायके तेरहवें श्लोकमें कहा है--'चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः'अर्थात् मेरे द्वारा गुणों और कर्मोंके विभागपूर्वक चारों वर्णोंकी रचना की गयी है।ब्रह्माजीके एक दिनका नाम 'कल्प' है, जो मानवीय एक हजार चतुर्युगीका होता है। इतने ही समयकी ब्रह्माजीकी एक रात होती है। इस हिसाबसे ब्रह्माजीकी आयु सौ वर्षोंकी होती है। ब्रह्माजीकी आयु समाप्त होनेपर जब ब्रह्माजी लीन हो जाते हैं, उस महाप्रलयको यहाँ 'कल्पक्षये' पदसे कहा गया है। जब ब्रह्माजी पुनः प्रकट होते हैं, उस महासर्गको यहाँ 'कल्पादौ'पदसे कहा गया है।

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