Krishna draws the conclusion. All beings in creation are born from these two natures — the material and the conscious, the lower and the higher. And I, Krishna says, am the origin and the end of this entire universe.
A river emerges from a mountain and eventually merges into the ocean. The mountain is both where it begins and where it returns. In the same way, this entire creation emerges from Krishna and dissolves back into Him. He is both the starting point and the resting place.
'Prabhavah pralayas tatha' — the source and the dissolution. This is a sweeping declaration. The shlokas that follow will bring this principle down from the cosmic scale to something you can feel in your daily life.