Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 8, Verse 18

Sanskrit Verse

अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे।

रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके।।8.18।।

Transliteration

avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavantyahar-āgame

rātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-sanjñake

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

Swami Sivananda's translation

From the Unmanifested, all the manifested worlds proceed upon the arrival of the ‘day’; upon the arrival of the ‘night’, they dissolve indeed into that which is known as the Unmanifested.

Chapter link: Gita Chapter 8