Verse-19
Chapter 8 — Akshar Brahmn Yoga
Verse 19
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
bhūtagrāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate
rātryāgame' vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavatyaharāgame
🕉 English Translation
Vash main hon prakarti ke jeev hi,
Paida hon Brahma ke din main sabhi.
Hoti hai han Brahma ki raat to,
Leen usmen hi ye sabhi jeev ho.
📜 Translation
English
O Parth! The same multitude of beings are born again and again and dissolves helplessly! Being subject to nature at the coming of the night and on coming of the day come forth again.
Till the time the embodied being attains the Supreme; he does not get freed from the cycle of birth and death; take it to be the absolutely clear truth. There is no alternative to it. This is a fact and the essential principle. When the night of Brahma comes and one is dissolved in it, still the matter remains there only. On coming of Brahma's day once again the same cycle begins. Just as when one sleeps in the night one forgets everything and on waking up in the morning, memory revives and the same cycle begins!
If there is attachment for the world, and the life is limited to sensual objects, and this has been taken to be one's nature and as one's true self and in it one is entangled then its influence will keep one moving in this very cycle. One will not be able to have hold on the course of events. Helplessly time and again one will have to come into the horrible cycle of coming and going from this world. No matter how many days and nights of Brahmaji elapse, no matter how many births take place, this cycle will not end. The world itself is in whirl and if one has attached one's mind to it then this cycle will persist. If one has to escape from it then rise above it. Move yourself forward towards the Supreme and eternal power because He is the one who is beyond the world and in Him the world terminates-