Verse 9.7

सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम् ।

कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम् ॥

9.7

Transliteration

sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām |

kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

All beings, O Arjuna, go into My Nature at the end of a Kalpa; I send them forth again at the beginning of (the next) Kalpa.

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Word by word

all beings
O son of Kunti
into nature
go
my own

at the end of an aeon
again
them
at the start of an aeon
send forth
I

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Krishna returns to the cosmic cycles described in the previous chapter. At the end of a kalpa, a cosmic age, all beings return into his nature (prakṛti). At the start of the next age, he sends them forth again. The verse places Krishna as the one who governs creation and dissolution. Unlike beings who are carried along by the cycle, he initiates it. The image is of a vast breathing in and breathing out of the universe, which continues without beginning or end.