Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 9, Verse 10

Sanskrit Verse

मयाऽध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम्।

हेतुनाऽनेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते।।9.10।।

Transliteration

mayādhyakṣheṇa prakṛitiḥ sūyate sa-charācharam

hetunānena kaunteya jagad viparivartate

Word meanings

mayā—by me; adhyakṣheṇa—direction; prakṛitiḥ—material energy; sūyate—brings into being; sa—both; chara-acharam—the animate and the inanimate; hetunā—reason; anena—this; kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti; jagat—the material world; viparivartate—undergoes the changes

Swami Sivananda's translation

Under Me, as supervisor, Nature produces the moving and the unmoving; therefore, O Arjuna, the world revolves.

Chapter link: Gita Chapter 9