Bhagavad Gita 9.10
मयाध्यक्षेण प्रकृतिः सूयते सचराचरम् | हेतुनानेन कौन्तेय जगद्विपरिवर्तते ||
mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram | hetunānena kaunteya jagad viparivartate ||
Translation
Under my supervision, prakṛti produces all that moves and does not move. By this cause, O son of Kuntī, the world turns again and again.
Reflection
What in your day is the witness, and what is the activity?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Nine
The relation between Krishna and prakriti made precise. He supervises, she produces. Prakriti is the active agent. Krishna is the witness whose presence makes the activity possible. By this single mechanism the world turns. The verse closes the first movement of the chapter. The sovereign knowledge promised in verse one has been laid out. There is one source. The world depends on it without exhausting it. The source itself is not bound by the dependence. The whole rolling motion of existence is the result. Everything else in the chapter, the high path, the wrong path, the leaf-and-flower offering, the no-devotee-lost promise, follows from these ten verses. The vocabulary is now in place.