Sanskrit · Devanagari
प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः। भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात् ॥
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prakṛtiṃ svāmavaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ bhūtagrāmamimaṃ kṛtsnamavaśaṃ prakṛtervaśāt
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Taking the control of my own nature I bring forth again and again this whole collection of entities without a will of its own by the power of nature. But
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।9.8।। --,प्रकृतिं स्वां स्वीयाम् अवष्टभ्य वशीकृत्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः प्रकृतितो जातं भूतग्रामं भूतसमुदायम् इमं वर्तमानं कृत्स्नं समग्रम् अवशम् अस्वतन्त्रम्? अविद्यादिदोषैः परवशीकृतम्? प्रकृतेः वशात् स्वभाववशात्।।तर्हि तस्य ते परमेश्वरस्य? भूतग्रामम् इमं विषमं विदधतः? तन्निमित्ताभ्यां धर्माधर्माभ्यां संबन्धः स्यादिति? इदम् आह भगवान् --,
2c19790f6251…Rāmānuja
9.8 Operating My Prakrti, with its wonderfully variegated potency, I develop it eightfold and send forth this fourfold aggregate of beings, gods, animals, men and inanimate things, time after time. All these entities are helpless, being under the sway of My Prakrti comprising the three Gunas which can cause delusion. If this is so, it may be urged, inealities of creation can be said to affect the Lord with cruelty, partiality etc. To this, the Lord answers:
adc1a3ffc091…Swami Sivananda
9.8 प्रकृतिम् Nature? स्वाम् My own? अवष्टभ्य having animated? विसृजामि (I) send forth? पुनः again? पुनः again? भूतग्रामम् multitude of beings? इमम् this? कृत्स्नम् all? अवशम् helpless? प्रकृतेः of Nature? वशात् by force.Commentary The Lord leans on? presses or embraces Nature. He invigorates and fertilises Nature which had gone to sleep at the end of the Mahakalpa or universal dissolution and projects again and again this whole multitude of beings. He gazes at each level and plane after plane comes into being.The term Prakriti denotes or indicates the five Kleshas or afflictions? viz.? Avidya (ignorance)? Asmita (egoism)? Raga (likes)? Dvesha (dislikes) and Abhinivesa (clinging to earthly life). (Cf.IV.6)
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