Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 269

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-8 Tāraka Brahma Yogaḥ

bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṃ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate | ratry-āgame’vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavaty-ahar-āgame || 19 || 19. The same multitude of beings comes forth again and again irresistibly, and is withdrawn at the coming of the night. Once again it comes forth at the coming of the day. Commentary The same array of beings, under the sway Karma, is projected at the coming of the cosmic day and is withdrawn at the coming of night. This process continues to repeat itself over and over again. Similarly, at the end of the life span of Brahma which consists of a hundred years of three hundred and sixty days each (311,040,000,000,000 human years) all the worlds including that of Brahma and even Brahma himself are absorbed into Nārāyaṇa in accordance with the order thus described in the Veda: — ‘The earth is dissolved into the waters, the waters are dissolved into light’ etc., .