9.7 Merged, and sent forth again Krishna speaks
सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्
कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्
sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛitiṁ yānti māmikām
kalpa-kṣhaye punas tāni kalpādau visṛijāmyaham
At the end of an age all beings merge into my nature, son of Kunti; and at the beginning of the next I send them forth again.
Explanation
The cycle, in one line.
At an age's end, beings merge into his nature; at the next beginning, he sends them forth.
Chapter 8 spent five verses on this, with a thousand ages to a day of Brahma. Here it is compressed to a breath, because in this chapter the cosmology is not the point — it is background for the offering.
Word by word
- sarva-bhūtāni
- all living beings
- kaunteya
- Arjun, the son of Kunti
- prakṛitim
- primordial material energy
- yānti
- merge
- māmikām
- my
- kalpa-kṣhaye
- at the end of a kalpa
- punaḥ
- again
- tāni
- them
- kalpa-ādau
- at the beginning of a kalpa
- visṛijāmi
- manifest
- aham
- I
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