8.17 सहस्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यद्ब्रह्मणो विदुः। रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः
sahasra
Word meanings
sahasra—one thousand;yuga—age;paryantam—until;ahaḥ—one day;yat—which;brahmaṇaḥ—of Brahma;viduḥ—know;rātrim—night;yuga-sahasra-antām—lasts one thousand yugas;te—they;ahaḥ-rātra-vidaḥ—those who know his day and night;janāḥ—people
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Those who know the day of Brahma as encompassing one thousand yugas (world-ages), and night [also] as encompassing one thousand yugas—those people know the day and night of Brahma.
Those who understand the cosmic day and cosmic night know that one day of creation is a thousand cycles, and that the night is of equal length.
Those who know the duration of the day and night understand a day of Brahma to last for a thousand Yugas, and a night of Brahma to last for another thousand Yugas.
Those people who are knowers of what day and night are, know the day of Brahma which ends in a thousand yugas [The four yugas (in the human worlds), viz Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali are made up of 4,320,000 years. This period multiplied by a thousand constitutes one day of Brahma. His night also extends over an equal period. See M.S. and V.S.A.], and His night which ends in a thousand yugas.
Those who know the day of Brahma, which is of a duration of a thousand Yugas (ages), and the night, which is also of a thousand Yugas’ duration, they know day and night.
8.19 भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते। रात्र्यागमेऽवशः पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे
bhūta
Word meanings
bhūta-grāmaḥ—the multitude of beings;saḥ—these;eva—certainly;ayam—this;bhūtvā bhūtvā—repeatedly taking birth;pralīyate—dissolves;rātri-āgame—with the advent of night;avaśhaḥ—helpless;pārtha—Arjun, the son of Pritha;prabhavati—become manifest;ahaḥ-āgame—with the advent of day
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Being born and reborn, the same multitude of beings is dissolved when night approaches and is born again, willy-nilly, when day approaches, O son of Prtha!
The same multitude of beings, which have lived on earth so often, all are dissolved as the night of the universe approaches, to issue forth anew when morning breaks. Thus is it ordained.
The same multitude of beings comes forth again and again irresistibly, and is dissolved at the coming of the night. And again it comes forth at the coming of the day.
O son of Prtha, after being born again and again, that very multitude of beings disappears in spite of itself at the approach of night. It comes to life at the approach of day.
This same multitude of beings, born again and again, is dissolved, helplessly, O Arjuna, (into the unmanifested) at the coming of the night, and comes forth at the coming of the day!
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अक्षरब्रह्मयोग
Chapter 8: The Nature of Brahman
akṣarabrahmayoga
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8.18 अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे। रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके
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Word meanings
avyaktāt—from the unmanifested;vyaktayaḥ—the manifested;sarvāḥ—all;prabhavanti—emanate;ahaḥ-āgame—at the advent of Brahma’s day;rātri-āgame—at the fall of Brahma’s night;pralīyante—they dissolve;tatra—into that;eva—certainly;avyakta-sanjñake—in that which is called the unmanifest
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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As the day approaches, all manifestations emerge from the unmanifest, and as the night approaches, they dissolve into the same, which is known as the 'unmanifest.'
At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream forth from the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved into It again.
All the manifested entities come forth from the unmanifest (Avyakta) at the coming of the day of Brahma; at the coming of his night they are dissolved into that which is known also as the unmanifest.
With the coming of day all manifested things emerge from the Unmanifest and when night comes they merge in that itself which is called the Unmanifested.
From the unmanifested all the manifested (worlds) proceed at the coming of the “day”; at the coming of the “night” they dissolve verily into that alone which is called the unmanifested.
