BHAGAVAD-GITA 9:7

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 9:7

 

sarva-bhutani kaunteya

prakrtim yanti mamikam

kalpa-ksaye punas tani

kalpadau visrjamy aham

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

sarva-bhutani--all created entities; kaunteya--O son of Kunti;

prakrtim--nature; yanti--enter; mamikam--My; kalpa-ksaye--at the end

of the millennium; punah--again; tani--all those; kalpa-adau--in the

beginning of the millennium; visrjami--create; aham--I.

 

TRANSLATION

 

O son of Kunti, at the end of the millennium all material

manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another

millennium, by My potency, I create them again.

 

PURPORT

 

The creation, maintenance and annihilation of this material cosmic

manifestation are completely dependent on the supreme will of the

Personality of Godhead. "At the end of the millennium" means at the

death of Brahma. Brahma lives for one hundred years, and his one day

is calculated at 4,300,000,000 of our earthly years. His night is of

the same duration. His month consists of thirty such days and nights,

and his year of twelve months. After one hundred such years, when

Brahma dies, the devastation or annihilation takes place; this means

that the energy manifested by the Supreme Lord is again wound up in

Himself. Then again, when there is a need to manifest the cosmic

world, it is done by His will. Bahu syam: "Although I am one, I shall

become many." This is the Vedic aphorism (Chandogya Upanisad 6.2.3).

He expands Himself in this material energy, and the whole cosmic

manifestation again takes place.

 

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