Chapter 8: Akshara Brahma Yoga – Comprehending the Imperishable Reality: Verse 19
भूतग्राम: स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते ।
रात्र्यागमेऽवश: पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे ॥
bhūta-grāma: sa evāyaṃ
bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate
rātry-āgame’vaśa: pārtha
prabhavaty-ahar-āgame – 8.19
This entire collection of beings, O Arjuna, is helplessly born again and again, and gets dissolved as night sets in, and then again irresistibly surges forth as the day dawns.
Chapter 8: Akshara Brahma Yoga – Comprehending the Imperishable Reality - Verse 19
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna, standing in the midst of the battlefield, is addressing Arjuna, whom he drove there to fight the unprecedented war. Any battle is an array of progressive deaths, extinctions of fighters on both sides, something hard to assimilate for the human heart. Arjuna had to enlarge his vision to empower his mind to assimilate these.
Overall knowledge of the complexity of life and nature will alone enable one in this regard. It is the inevitable course of building anyone’s mind and emotions to withstand life’s intriguing facets and their impacts.
Leave alone Brahmā’s dissolution or extinction. This collection of beings on the earth, says Krishna, emerges again and again at daybreak and dissolves completely as night sets in. Day and night are but concepts, names. They verily imply the repeated emergence and extinction of beings. Human day and night signify the same process. Kurukshetra war evidences this sequence alone.
