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Chapter 8. Attaining the Supreme

TEXT 18

avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah
prabhavanty ahar-agame
ratry-agame praliyante
tatraivavyakta-samjnake

SYNONYMS

avyaktat--from the unmanifest; vyaktayah--living entities; sarvah--all; prabhavanti--come into being; ahah-agame--at the beginning of the day; ratri-agame--at the fall of night; praliyante--are annihilated; tatra--there; eva--certainly; avyakta--the unmanifest; samjnake--called. 

TRANSLATION

When Brahma's day is manifest, this multitude of living entities comes into being, and at the arrival of Brahma's night they are all annihilated.

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