സര്വ്വഭൂതാനി കൌന്തേയ പ്രകൃതിം യാന്തി മാമികാം കല്പക്ഷയേ പുനസ്താനി കല്പാദൌ വിസൃജാമ്യഹം
sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham
English Translation
O son Kunti, all the beings go back at the end of a cycle to My Prakrti. I project them forth again at the beginning of a cycle.
Explanation · English
Prakriti The inferior one or the lower Nature composed of the three alities? Sattva? Rajas and Tamas.Just as the grass grows from the earth and dries up in the earth? just as the ripples and waves rise from the ocean and disappear in the ocean itself? just as the dreams proceed from the mind and melt away in the mind itself when the dreamer comes back to the waking state? so also the beings which arise from Nature merge into it during dissolution or Pralaya.Pralaya is the period of dissolution. MahaUtpatti is the time of creation. (Cf.VIII.18?19)