| After attaining Me the great souls do not incur rebirth,
the impermanent home of misery, because they have attained the highest perfection. (8.15)
The dwellers of all the worlds including the world of
Brahmaa, the creator, are subject to (the miseries of) repeated birth and death. But, after attaining Me, O
Arjuna, one does not take birth again. (See also 9.25) (8.16)
Those who know that the day of Brahmaa lasts one
thousand Yugas (or 4.32 billion years) and that his night also lasts one thousand Yugas, they are the knowers of day
and night. (8.17)
All manifestations come out of the unmanifest state or
Prakriti at the arrival of Brahmaa's day, and they again merge into the same Prakriti at the coming of Brahmaa's
night. (8.18)
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