SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama:
sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya
prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām
kalpa-kṣaye punas tāni
kalpādau visṛjāmy aham
‘All beings, Kaunteya1! enter into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa2. Again do I emit them at the beginning of a Kalpa3.’
All movable and immovable things enter into My own Nature, i.e. prakṛiti which is My body designated tamas (darkness=the indistinguishable, indifferentiate vast expanse of matter-stuff;, which has no name, form and division (in its indistinct state).
At the end of a Kalpa: when the period of dissolution comes for the four-faced Brahma. At that time all creatures pass into Me by My will.
The self-same creatures do I bring forth again at the dawning of a Kalpa. Says Manu:—
‘This became full of tamas (darkness)’ etc.,4
‘He, willing (to produce) from His own body’ etc.,5
Say the Śrutis also thus:—
‘Of Whom avyakta (indiscernible matter) is body’6.
‘Avyakta merges into akshara, and akshara into tamas‘7.
‘It was tamas in the beginning, by tamas was all hidden and indiscernible (apraketam)’8.
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- A matronymic of Arjuna. ↩
- See footnotes to verse 4.4 and verse 4.8. ↩
- See footnotes to verse 4.4 and verse 4.8. ↩
- Manu: i-5. (Āsīd idam tamo-bhūtam etc). ↩
- Manu: i-8. (So`bhidhyāya śarīrāt svāt etc). ↩
- Sub: Up: 7. Yasyā `vyaktam śarīram etc). ↩
- Sub: Up: 2 (Avyaktam akshare līyate etc). ↩
- Tait: Brā: ii-8-9 and Rig Veda viii-7-17. (Tama āsīt tamasā gūdham agre`praketam). apraketam=apra-jñāyamānām=incomprehensible. ↩