Verse-10
Chapter 9 — Rajvidya Rajguha Yoga
Verse 10
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
mayādhyakşeņa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram
hetunānena kaunteva jagadviparivartate
🕉 English Translation
Rachti hai prakriti iss jagat ko,
Shakti hai magar peeche meri he ho.
Chakker mein rehta hai sansar yeh,
Kabhi paida hota kabhi hota laya.
📜 Translation
English
O son of Kunti, Arjun! Through the power of My guidance, the nature creates this world of all moving and unmoving creatures. Owing to this the entire world revolves.
The entire creation is in a whirl. This cycle of creation is going on continuously. Observe the bodies or the nature; the cycle of change is going on side by side. Childhood, youth, adulthood, old age, death; and rebirth, and once again the same order, the same cycle! Day-night, full moon-new moon, winter-summer, spring and antumn-all this is the revolving cycle! Since the creation of world this has been going on continuously without any hindrance; and the origin and dissolution of creation is also a part of it. How many times this creation came into existence and how many times it dissolved-the cycle continued.
This cycle is directly in front of us and is evident; but who is the establisher and governor of this cycle? Deriving strength from whose power is this cycle being carried forward? Along with the significance of Nature, the preacher of the Gita also wants to make us aware of this reality:
The electric current does nothing on its own. But all appliances deriving power from it perform their respective functions. The Supreme is the supreme power of all powers, is the source of all kinds of energy. The significance of all powers is due to His power. Deriving consciousness from Him nature becomes nature; in itself all is inert.
The preacher of the Gita in the form of knowledge and wisdom is expounding the essence of royal knowledge and royal secret with great minuteness and depth. That the embodied being should be able to understand in any way! The essential truth is that only, who in the form of charioteer of Arjun is giving the sermon and is trying to entrench the reality in the mind of all the seekers of self elevation through the medium of Arjun; but all do not accept and understand it: