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Chapter 9

Chapter 9 · Verse 8

Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga

राजविद्याराजगुह्ययोग

प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः | भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात् ||९-८||

prakṛtiṃ svāmavaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ . bhūtagrāmamimaṃ kṛtsnamavaśaṃ prakṛtervaśāt ||9-8||

In plain words

The Lord leans on presses or embraces Nature. He invigorates and fertilises Nature which had gone to sleep at the end of the Mahakalpa or universal dissolution and projects again and again this whole multitude of beings. He gazes at each level and plane after plane comes into being.

Translation

9.8 Controlling the Prakrti, which is My own, I send forth again and again all this multitude of beings, helpless under the sway of Prakrti.

Meaning

The Lord leans on presses or embraces Nature. He invigorates and fertilises Nature which had gone to sleep at the end of the Mahakalpa or universal dissolution and projects again and again this whole multitude of beings. He gazes at each level and plane after plane comes into being. The term Prakriti denotes or indicates the five Kleshas or afflictions viz.. Avidya (ignorance). Asmita (egoism). Raga (likes). Dvesha (dislikes) and Abhinivesa (clinging to earthly life). (Cf. IV.6)

Word by word

प्रकृतिम् Nature स्वाम् My own अवष्टभ्य having animated विसृजामि (I) send forth पुनः again पुनः again भूतग्रामम् multitude of beings इमम् this कृत्स्नम् all अवशम् helpless प्रकृतेः of Nature वशात् by force.