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Chapter 8
Link:—/n the next verse, there is description of creation and dissolution, of the universe as per the day and night of Brahma
avyaktadvyaktayah sarvan prabhavantyaharagame
ratryagame praliyante tatraivavyaktasaiijnake
All manifest beings emanate, from the Unmanifest (Brahma's subtle body) at the commencement of Brahma's day; and at the beginning of his night, they merge in the unmanifested form. 18
Comment:-
Avyaktadvyaktayah sarvan prabhavantyaharagame ratryagame praliyante tatraivavyaktasanjnake:—The bodies of beings, here have been called 'manifest', and, in the fourth verse of the fourteenth chapter, they have been called 'forms'. As an embodied one, has his self-made creation of 'I' and 'mine', when he wakes up from sleep and that creation merges in him, when he is asleep. Similarly, a multitude of beings, is dragged into the manifest state, from Brahma's subtle body viz., prakrti, when Brahma wakes up and they merge in his subtle body then he retires to sleep. It means, that when Brahma wakes up, there is creation and when he retires to sleep, there is dissolution. But, when his life-span of a hundred years is over, there is final annihilation, in which Brahma merges into the Lord. The span of final annihilation, is equal to the age of Brahma. At the end of the span of final annihilation, Brahma emanates from the Lord and then there is a new creation of the universe (Gita 9/7-8).
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