They, ‘resorting to this knowledge’ which will be expounded later, come to partake of My nature, and they attain My status. ‘They are not born at the time of creation,’ they are not subjected to the process of creation, and they ‘suffer not at the time of dissolution,’ i.e. they are not subjected to the distress involved in dissolution of the universe.

In order to show how the Gunas of Prakrti constitute the cause of bondage, Shri Krishna now declares that, the aggregation of beings, born from the conjunction of Purusha and Prakrti as stated already in the passages, ‘Whatever being is born’ (13.26), is brought about by the Lord Himself: