सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम् | कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम् ||९-७||
sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām . kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham ||9-7||
Chapter 9 · Verse 7
Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga
राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोग
Translation
9.7 All beings, O Arjuna, enter into My Prakrti at the end of a cycle of time. Again I send these forth at the beginning of a cycle of time.
Meaning
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)
Word by word
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.