This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.

Nature (prakṛti) is not autonomous — it operates under divine oversight. The entire display of the natural world, all living and non-living things, all the cycles of creation and destruction, happen under the Supreme's watchful direction. The world is not a mechanical accident but a divinely supervised unfolding.