Verse 8.18

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 8.18:

अव्यक्ताद् व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्य् अहर्-आगमे ।
रात्र्य्-आगमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्त-संज्ञके ॥ १८ ॥

avyaktād vyaktayaḥ sarvāḥ prabhavanty ahar-āgame |
rātry-āgame pralīyante tatraivāvyakta-saṃjñake || 18 ||

avyaktāt–from the unmanifest; vyaktayaḥ–the individual embodied living beings; sarvāḥ–all; prabhavanti–become manifest; aha-āgame–when the day comes; rātri-āgame–when the night comes; pralīyante–they dissolve; tatra eva–at that very time; avyakta-saṃjñake–into that (state) known as the unmanifest.

All living beings manifest from the unmanifest cause at the beginning of Brahmā’s day, and again become dissolved into the same unmanifest cause upon the arrival of his night.

Commentary: Sārārtha-Varṣiṇī Ṭīkā

(By Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura; the innermost intention of the commentary named ‘the shower of essential meanings’)

Those who are residents of the lower three planets, Bhūr, Bhuvaḥ and Svaḥ, must die in every day of Brahmā. For this reason, Śrī Bhagavān speaks this verse beginning with the word avyaktād. Śrīpāda Madhusūdana Sarasvatī says, “In the cycle of the creation and annihilation of Brahmā’s day, the element sky exists daily.” Therefore, the word avyakta in this verse does not refer to the pradhāna, the unmanifest state of material nature; it indicates Brahmā’s night.

From that unmanifest cause, namely Brahmā’s night, comes his day, which manifests the field for enjoyment in the form of the body, sense objects and so forth. The whole world actively manifests in this way. Then, at the approach of his night, it is again dissolved into the unmanifest cause while he sleeps.