Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 284

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-9 Rāja-vidyā Rāja--guhya Yogaḥ

sarva bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṃ yānti māmikām | kalpa-kṣaye punas-tāni kalpādau visṛjāmy-aham || 7 || 7. All beings, O Arjuna, are assimilated into My Nature (Prakrti) at the end of a cycle of time (kalpa). Again I send them forth at the beginning of a new cycle. Commentary All the mobile and immobile entities enter into Krishna’s Being (Prakrti) at the end of a cycle, of Brahma’s life. This Prakrti (Nature), constituting the Divine Being, is described by the term Tamas, as it cannot be differentiated into name and form. Manu also concurs: ‘This universe became Tamas.... by an act of [divine] will. He produced it out of His body’ . The Vedas also declare this: — ‘He whose physical nature is Unmanifest’ ; ‘The Unmanifest (avyakta) merges into the Imperishable (akṣara), the akṣara into (Darkness) Tamas’ ; and also — ‘There was Darkness (Tamas); consciousness was in the beginning concealed by Darkness (Tamas)’