CH 8, Verse 18

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Chapter 8

Verse 18

 

Avyaktaad.h vyaktayah sarvaah prabhavanty aharaagame /

raatry-aagame praleeyante tatr'aiv'aavyakta sa.njnake

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>From the unmanifested, all the manifestations proceed

at the dawn of the day; and at the coming of night

they dissolve there only, in what is called the

unmanifest.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 82

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

Compiled by: Swami Dattananda

Bhaktimala, August 2000

 

"From the unmanifested, all the manifestations proceed

at the dawn of the day; and at the coming of night

they dissolve there only, in what is called the

unmanifest."

 

In this verse, the word ‘Avyakta’ refers to the

Prakriti or the primordial matter. Prakriti is called

the unmanifest because at the time of dissolution, the

whole creation dissolves in it and remains in an

unmanifested state. In other words, the whole creation

remains latent in it as a tree in a seed.

 

As soon as the day of Brahma dawns all the worlds come

into manifestation from the unmanifested Prakriti, and

when his night sets in, the entire manifested universe

or the creation gets itself absorbed into the

Prakriti. In short Brahman’s day and night mean

evolution and involution of the whole universe.

 

The universe has not come out of nothing. The whole

material for the universe existed in unmanifested

state in Prakriti. From that state it has come out

into its different forms, and at the time of

dissolution it goes back again into the unmanifested

Prakriti. Therefore the unmanifested Prakriti is the

material cause of the universe. The cycle of creation

and dissolution thus alternates during one day and one

night of the duration of Brahma (Creator).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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