सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च ॥ २ ॥
idaṃ jñānamupāśritya mama sādharmyamāgatāḥ .
sarge’pi nopajāyante pralaye na vyathanti ca .. 2 ..
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‘Unity’ (sadharmya) here means ‘identity.’ It does not mean ‘equality in attributes,’ since in the Gītā-śāstra no distinction is made between the Īśvara and the Kṣetrajña. And a declaration of the (true main end (of knowledge) is here necessary to praise the knowledge.* They who, having resorted to this knowledge,—i.e., having practised the neces- sary means whereby to attain that knowledge,—have attained to idenity with Me, the Supreme Lord, are neither born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution; i.e., they are not affected even at the time of Brahma’s dissolution.
If equality were meant here, then it would only be a statement of the fruit of dhyana, not that of knowledge, of which the Lord is here speaking.—A.
Evolution of the universe from the union of Spirit and Matter.
The Lord now proceeds to explain what sort of conjunction of Kṣetrajña is the cause of all beings :