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Chapter 9
prakrtim svamavastabhya visrjami punah punah
bhutagramamimam krtsnamavasam prakrtervasat
By use of My Nature (prakrti), I bring forth, again and ever again, this whole multitude of creations, subject however to the influence of their, own nature. 8
Comment:-
Bhutagramamimam krtsnamavassm prakrtervasat:—Here, the term 'prakrti', stands for individual prakrti. At final dissolution, all beings merge in individual Nature (causal bodies) and individual Nature merges into Cosmic Nature and Cosmic Nature, merges into the Lord. But, at the beginning of a creation when actions of those beings become mature to bear fruit, the Lord, thinks to become manifold from one. So, there is commotion in nature. When curd is churned, butter and butter-milk become separate. Out of this, butter flows over butter-milk Here, butter is sattvika, butter-milk is tamas and the action of churning is, Rajas. Similarly, from the commotion in prakrti (Nature), also the three attributes (qualities)—goodness, activity (passion) and inertia (ignorance), are born. Out of the three modes, the heaven, this mortal world and the underworld, are born. In these three worlds, beings are born according to their actions, and nature. This description, is also given in the third and fourth verses of the fourteenth chapter. Where 'prakrti has been called 'Mahadbrahma, and 'the Lord's pursuit of mind to become manifold' has been declared, as 'placing the seed of all life.'
At dissolution the soul submerges into God, but it does not attain emancipation, because it submerges being associated with modes of nature. Had it renounced its association wim modes, it might have emancipated forever, and would not have undergone, the wheel of birth and death.
Attachment to these modes, is the cause of beings' birth, in good and evil bodies. So, a being remains under its control. In the nineteenth verse of the eighth chapter, there is a description of a being who remains under the control of his own individual nature. In the fifth verse of the third chapter, there is description of helplessness, under one's nature after birth. A being, is tied by these Nature-born modes, in all the three worlds, as is also described in the fifth verse of the fourteenth chapter.
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