The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

╭ chapter eight
Scholars have noted that this grand vision of the cosmos
being born, dying, and being reborn for eternity – cosmos
after cosmos arising from the black immensity of nothingness
– is quite similar to modern theories of the expanding and
contracting universe put forward by contemporary cosmology.
The vast time spans accepted by present-day physics are
also similar to the cosmic Days and Nights of Brahma. Each
Day lasts for a thousand yugas, which equals 4,320,000,000
years. For this near-eternity of time the universe lives and
grows; then it dies and lies dormant for an equal time, before
the new Day dawns.
There is a state of being, however, that is higher than the
perishable cosmos, which is not born and does not die the
cosmic death. Here (8:20) it is called simply avyakta, the
Unmanifest. This is the supreme goal of all living things, and it
is Krishna’s home (8:21). Returning to this final resting place,
the soul enters into immortal bliss and is not reborn.
– d.m.
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