Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 - Rajavidya Rajaguhya Yoga - Sloka 8

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission

The Relationship between Saguna Brahman and Prakriti 1-10

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 9 - Rajavidya Rajaguhya Yoga - Sloka 8

Antaryami in each atom

Prakritim svam avashtabhya visrujami punah punah I

Bhuta gramam imam krtsnam avasham prakruteh vashat II sloka 8

प्रकृतिं स्वां अवष्टभ्य विसृजामि पुनः पुनः Iभूत ग्रामम इमं क्रस्त्नं अवशं प्रकृतेः वशात् II श्लोक 8

Animating my prakriti, I send forth again and again all this multitude of beings helpless under the regime of prakriti.

 the act of animating prakriti takes place on a miniature scale at all levels of our existence. Waking up in the mornings all beings writhe, wriggle and twist their limbs in order to animate them. We animate the field by ploughing it. The beast is animated with a whip. the pupil is animated with a shake up. In all these acts spirit is infused into matter. At the beginning of a kalpa, prakriti comes from the unmanifest to the manifest state, being animated by the purusha. Beings then helplessly and spontaneously come into existence even as we helplessly wake up from sleep. 

Does this mean that the actionless atman also is occasionally active? No. The xplanation is given in the next sloka.