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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -8
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19. The very same multitude of beings, being born again and again, merges, in spite of itself, O Pārtha, at the coming on of night, and remanifests itself at the coming on of day. The very same multitude of beings, the entire creation, compris ing the immobile and the mobile, that existed in the previous " kalpa"[1], and not. any other, being born again and again at the coming on of day, merges again and again at the coming on of night, at the end of the day, in spite of itself, involuntarily, O Partha, and re-manifests itself, involuntarily again, at the coming on of day. The means to reach the Imperishable (Aksara) referred to above has been indicated in the passage, "uttering the one-syllabled Ora" etc.[2]. Mow, then, with the object of declaring the true nature of that very same Aksara, which is the goal to be reached by this path of yoga, the Lord says: |
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References and Context
- ↑ " kalpa" is the day of Brahma, consisting of 1000 catw-yugas, thousand four-yoga-cycles, or 4,320 million human years. There are four Yugas: kfta or satya. tieta, dvāpara and kali, respectively consisting of 4800; 3600; 2400 and 1200 Celestial years. A year (360 days) of the humans make a single day of the celestials. Therefore by the human calendar the four yugas consist respectively of 1,728,000; 1,296,000; 864,000 and 432,000 years ; the four together, i.e., a caluic-or-" maha "-yuga comprises 4,320,000 human years.
- ↑ VIII-13