सर्वभूतानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम् | कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम्
sarvabhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām . kalpakṣaye punastāni kalpādau visṛjāmyaham
貢蒂之子啊，所有眾生在「劫」（Kalpa）末時，皆回歸我之「原質」（Prakrti）。在「劫」初時，我再將其創生而出。
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.
「原質」（Prakriti）是指由悅性（Sattva）、變性（Rajas）和惰性（Tamas）三種屬性組成的下等或較低本性。正如草從大地生長，又在大地中枯萎；正如漣漪和波浪從海洋升起，又在海洋中消失；正如夢境從心智產生，又在夢者回到清醒狀態時在心智中消融；同樣地，從本性（Nature）中產生的眾生，在解體（Pralaya）或大毀滅期間，也融入其中。「解體」（Pralaya）是毀滅時期。「大創生」（Maha Utpatti）是創造時期。（參見《博伽梵歌》第八章第十八、十九節）
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)