Krishna now reveals the rhythm of the cosmos. At the end of a kalpa — a vast cycle of creation — all beings dissolve back into his prakriti. And when a new kalpa dawns, he sends them forth again. This is the eternal pulse of the universe.
Picture a household settling down at night. Everyone sleeps. The house is still. Come morning, everyone rises, the kitchen stirs, children run about. The kalpa cycle is like that — but on an unimaginable scale. Nothing is destroyed. Nothing is newly created. Beings fold inward and unfold outward, again and again.