Chapter 9: Rājavidyā-rājaguhya-yoga – Kingly Knowledge, Kingly Secret: Verse 8
प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुन: पुन: ।
भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात् ॥
prakṛtiṃ svām-avaṣṭabhya
visṛjāmi puna: puna:
bhūta-grāmam-imaṃ kṛtsnamavaśaṃ
prakṛter-vaśāt – 9.8
I, as the Supreme, by animating My Prakṛti (Nature), release this entire aggregate of beings helpless by the force of Prakṛti, again and again.
Chapter 9: Rājavidyā-rājaguhya-yoga – Kingly Knowledge, Kingly Secret - Verse 8
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Prakrti (Nature) is an aggregate, and the Supreme is the singular animator of it. Prakrti itself cannot do anything. It consists of matter and energy, and the various forms and functions they are led to. Once they are animated and propelled, multiple series of products and processes irresistibly come to play, resulting in a host of cycles big and small, long and short, kalpa being the biggest conceivable of these.
It is like mammals and humans giving birth to children through a process, and the children growing and becoming parents themselves. Children and grandchildren become themselves grandparents. The sequences of growth, events and fruitions take place within this broad cycle of emergence and subsidence, kalpa marking a definite end for the whole display.
In this course, the conscious Supreme animates Prakrti, resulting in evolution of matter, energy and beings, leading to dissolution of everything at the end of the kalpa.
