Chapter 8 · Verse 18 · Akshara Brahma Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 8.18
Sanskrit
अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे। रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके।।8.18।।
Transliteration
avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavantyahar-āgame rātryāgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-sanjñake
In plain words
You are watching something you love slip away, and it feels like the end of the world. Krishna says: everything that appears must also disappear—not because it was meaningless, but because that is the rhythm of existence itself, and you are held within something far larger than any single loss. When you stop fighting the natural unfolding of things, you find peace not in permanence, but in the eternal ground beneath all change.
Word by Word
From the Unmanifest emerges all that we perceive—the dance of creation itself flows from what lies beyond form and time. This verse reveals the breathing rhythm of the cosmos: manifestation arises at dawn, dissolution returns at dusk, all within the eternal Unmanifest.
When you realize that both your appearance and your disappearance are held within something infinitely larger, the fear of loss dissolves into trust.
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Bhagavad Gita 8.18 — BG 8.18
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