Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते ।
रात्र्यागमेऽवशः पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे ॥१९॥
bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ
bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate
rātry-āgame 'vaśaḥ pārtha
prabhavaty ahar-āgame
Word for word (synonyms)
- bhūta-grāmaḥ
- the aggregate of all living entities
- saḥ
- they
- eva
- certainly
- ayam
- this
- bhūtvā bhūtvā
- taking birth
- pralīyate
- annihilate
- rātri
- night
- āgame
- on arrival
- avaśaḥ
- automatically
- pārtha
- O son of Pṛthā
- prabhavanti
- manifest
- ahaḥ
- during daytime
- āgame
- on arrival
Translation
Again and again the day comes, and this host of beings is active; and again the night falls, O Pārtha, and they are helplessly dissolved.
What this verse teaches
Manifest and unmanifest states of material world
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 1
- Bhagavad-gītā 8.15–20 1966-10-31 · New York
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