Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 285

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-9 Rāja-vidyā Rāja--guhya Yogaḥ

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prakṛtiṃ svām-avaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ |
bhūta-grāmam imaṃ kṛtsnam avaśaṃ prakṛter-vaśāt || 8 ||

8. Animating my own Nature [Prakrti], I send forth again and again all this multitude of
beings, helpless under the sway of Prakrti.

Commentary

“I develop it eightfold and send forth this fourfold aggregate of beings; gods, animals, humans and inanimate things, time after time. All these entities are helpless, being under the sway of Prakrti comprising the three Gunas which cause delusion.”

If this is so, it may be argued that the inequalities of creation are due to the Lord being cruel or partial etc. To this, the Lord answers: —

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