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Chapter 8
bhutagramah sa evayam bhutva bhutva praliyate
ratryagame'vasah partha prabhavatyaharagame
This multitude of beings, born again and again, under compulsion from prakrti, merges at the commencement of Brahma's night and
rises again at the start of his day. 19
Comment:-
Bhutagramah sa evayam:—This multitude of beings, which is subject to birth and death, from time immemorial, being a fraction of the Lord, is eternal and imperishable. It remains the same, at the time of creation and dissolution, as also on new creation and final dissolution. But by an error, beings assume their affinity with nature and its evolutes—body and worldly objects etc., which are kaleidoscopic and perishable. They do not want to leave, the bodies but these get discarded. Thus man (soul) has to be born and then, decay again and again. The wheel of birth will continue, as long as, he continues his affinity with the body and the world, which he assumed himself. He is free and capable of snapping this tie. Actually, he cannot keep this association permanently, because objects are ephemeral and perishable.
The Lord, created the multitude of beings, for His recreation, with a lot of material for sport. It is a rule of a game, (sport), that its materials, are only for the game's sake, not for laying personal claim on them. The beings, instead of taking part in the sport, attach themselves to the material, accepting it as their own, and thus getting entangled in it. So they have a disinclination, for God.
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