Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 9.8
Gita Bhashya (Sri Ramanujacharya) 9.8 · 9 · Verse 8
Sanskrit Original
।।9.8।।स्वकीयां विचित्रपरिणामिनीं प्रकृतिम् अवष्टभ्य अष्टधा परिणमय्य इमं चतुर्विधं देवतिर्यङ्मनुष्यस्थावरात्मकं भूतग्रामं मदीयाया मोहिन्याः गुणमय्याः प्रकृतेः वशात् अवशं पुनः पुनः काले काले विसृजामि।एवं तर्हि विषमसृष्ट्यादीनि कर्माणि नैर्घृण्याद्यापादनेन भगवन्तं बध्नन्ति इति? अत्र आह --
9.8 Operating My Prakrti, with its wonderfully variegated potency, I develop it eightfold and send forth this fourfold aggregate of beings, gods, animals, men and inanimate things, time after time. All these entities are helpless, being under the sway of My Prakrti comprising the three Gunas which can cause delusion. If this is so, it may be urged, inealities of creation can be said to affect the Lord with cruelty, partiality etc. To this, the Lord answers: