Bhagavad Gītā · Chapter 9, Verse 7
सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम्।
कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्।।
कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्।।
sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām
kalpa-kṣaye punas tāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham
also searched as "sarvabhutani kaunteya prakritim yanti mamikam"
Translation
All beings, O Arjuna, enter into My Prakriti at the end of a cycle of time; again, I send them forth at the beginning of a cycle of time.
Vāṇi's rendering
When an age ends, all beings return into my nature. When the next begins, I send them forth again.
Word by word
| Sanskrit & transliteration | Meaning |
|---|---|
| सर्वsarva | all, every |
| भूतानिbhūtāni | beings, existing things |
| कौन्तेयkaunteya | O son of Kunti — Arjuna |
| प्रकृतिम्prakṛtim | into nature, into the creative ground |
| यान्तिyānti | they go, they return |
| मामिकाम्māmikām | belonging to me, my own |
| कल्पkalpa | an age, one vast cycle of time |
| क्षयेkṣaye | at the dissolving, at the close |
| पुनःpunaḥ | again (here as punas before tāni) |
| तानिtāni | them, those very beings |
| कल्पkalpa | an age, a cycle |
| आदौādau | at the beginning (kalpa + ādau joined as kalpādau) |
| विसृजामिvisṛjāmi | I send forth, I release outward |
| अहम्aham | I (joined in sandhi as visṛjāmyaham) |
Frequently asked
What does kalpa mean in Bhagavad Gita 9.7?
A kalpa is one full cycle of the world — an immense age with a beginning and a close. Krishna uses it to place Arjuna's grief inside a rhythm far larger than one battlefield, one lifetime, or one loss.
Does this verse say that beings are destroyed at the end of an age?
No. They return into Krishna's own nature — withdrawn, not annihilated. The same beings, tāni, are sent forth again when the next age opens. What ends is the form, not the being.
How does Gita 9.7 speak to someone facing a death?
It says the one who has gone has not fallen out of existence but back into Krishna. Nothing has been lost or discarded. You are grieving a departure, not a deletion — and the ground holding them is the same ground holding you.
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Commentary
Count the beings that have already gone. Everything that has lived returns into Krishna's nature when the age closes — not destroyed, folded in, the way a wave is not lost when it flattens. Then the next age opens and he sends them out again. Arjuna is being shown a scale in which his own death, and the death of everyone on that field, is a single exhalation. This is not comfort about your importance. It is comfort about your safety. Nothing you love is being thrown away; it is being held, and it will be sent out again. You have already survived one such night.