Bhagavad Gita 14.2
इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः । सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च ॥ २ ॥
idaṁ jñānam upāśritya mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ | sarge 'pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca ||2||
Translation
Those who, resorting to this knowledge, have attained likeness to me, are not born even at the creation, nor distressed at the dissolution.
Reflection
What in you would still be itself if everything around you began or ended right now?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Fourteen
The promise of the chapter is laid out before the analysis begins. Whoever uses this knowledge as a refuge enters sadharmya, sameness of nature with the Lord. That sameness does not mean merger of identity in the gross sense. It means freedom from the cycle that creation and dissolution drag everything else through. The cosmos breathes out and breathes in; what has become like Krishna in nature stays untouched by either motion. Sarga and pralaya are macro versions of birth and death; release from them is release at every scale. Knowledge that pays such a price is worth slow study.