भूतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते | रात्र्यागमेऽवशः पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे ||८-१९||
bhūtagrāmaḥ sa evāyaṃ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate . rātryāgame.avaśaḥ pārtha prabhavatyaharāgame ||8-19||
Chapter 8 · Verse 19
Akshara Brahma Yoga
अक्षरब्रह्मयोग
In plain words
Avidya (ignorance). Kama (desire) and Karma (action) are the three knots that bind the individual to Samsara. Desire is born of Avidya.
Translation
8.19 O son of Prtha, after being born again and again, that very multitude of beings disappears in spite of itself at the approach of night. It comes to life at the approach of day. 8.19 This same multitude of beings, being born again and again, is dissolved, helplessly, O Arjuna (into the Unmanifested) at the coming of the night and comes forth at the coming of the day. 8.19 O son of Prtha, bhutva, after being born again and again at the approach of day; sah eva, that very-not any other; bhutagramah, multitude of beings, consisting of the moving and the non-moving objects that existed in the earlier cycle of creation; praliyate, disappears repeatedly; avasah, in spinte of itself, [For they are impelled by their own defects] without any independence whatever; ratri-agame, at the approach of night, at the close of the day. Prabhavati, it comes to life, verily in spite of itself; ahar-agame, at the approach of day. The means for the attainment of that Immutable which was introduced has been pointed out in, 'He who departs by leaving the body while uttering the single syllable, viz Om, which is Brahman, ' etc. (13). Now, with a vies to indicating the real nature of that very Immutable, this is being said-that It is to be reached through this path of yoga:
Meaning
Avidya (ignorance). Kama (desire) and Karma (action) are the three knots that bind the individual to Samsara. Desire is born of Avidya. Man exerts to attain and enjoy the objects of his desires. During this activity he favours some and injures others through the force of RagaDvesha (love and hatred or attraction and repulsion). Therefore he is caught in the wheel of Samsara or transmigration. He has to take birth again and again to reap the fruits of his own actions. He repeatedly comes forths and dissolves through the force of his own Karma. The individual souls have lost their independence as they are bound by ignorance desire and activity. Therefore they are subject to the sorrows miseries and pains of this Samsara. In order to create dispassion in their minds and a longing for liberation in their hearts and to remove the fallacious belief that a man reaps the fruits of what he has not done or that he does not reap the fruits of what he has done the Lord has said that all creatures involuntarily come into being again and again at the coming of the day and dissolve at the coming of the night (on account of the actions or Karmas caused by desire born of ignorance).
Word by word
भूतग्रामः multitude of beings सः that एव verily अयम् this भूत्वा भूत्वा being born again and again प्रलीयते dissolves रात्र्यागमे at the coming of night अवशः helpless पार्थ O Partha प्रभवति comes forth अहरागमे at the coming of day.