| avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah
prabhavanty ahar-agame। ratry-agame praliyante tatraivavyakta-samjnake॥ 8.18 ॥ |
At the beginning of Brahma’s day, all living entities become manifest from the un-manifest state, and thereafter, when the night falls, they are merged into the un-manifest again.
| bhuta-gramah sa evayam
bhutva bhutva praliyate। ratry-agame ’vasah partha prabhavaty ahar-agame॥ 8.19 ॥ |
Again and again, when Brahma’s day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahma’s night they are helplessly annihilated.
| "paras tasmat tu bhavo ’nyo
’vyakto ’vyaktat sanatanah। yah sa sarveshu bhutesu nasyatsu na vinasyati॥ 8.20 ॥ |
Yet there is another un-manifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and un-manifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.
| avyakto ’kshara ity uktas
tam ahuh paramam gatim। yam prapya na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama॥ 8.21 ॥ |
That which the Vedantists describe as un-manifest and infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination, that place from which, having attained it, one never returns—that is My supreme abode.
| purushah sa parah partha
bhaktya labhyas tv ananyaya। yasyantah-sthani bhutani yena sarvam idam tatam॥ 8.22 ॥ |
The Lord / God, who is greater than all, is attainable by unalloyed devotion. Although He is present in His abode, He is all-pervading, and everything is situated within Him.
